Welcome to iHartAngie.net, a.k.a. i [Hart] Angie, the official fan resource and repository for all things Angie Hart, and the site formerly known as www.angie-hart.com.
Why the change?
ABC Records, the label releasing Angie’s debut solo album, Grounded Bird, requested use of the angie-hart.com domain name for their promotional site for the album. Following a quick brainstorming session with Angie and her manager, Will, we decided to relocate the former site to ihartangie.net.
I’m taking this opportunity to strip the site of some unnecessary ballast. The end-result will hopefully be a streamlined website, navigable with fewer mouse-clicks, but no less rich in content.
Rather than setup a local forum, I’m farming that part of the site out to Google for the time-being and we’ll see whether that works out. My reasons:
- Not having to mess with a local forum database or forum software package.
- Portability; if we ever move again, the forum remains as it stands.
- Spam; let Google handle the spam. They’re better at it than I am anyway.
- Hands-off upgrading; Google can update the forums. I won’t have to.
- User-selectable interaction; you want the talk in your email? You prefer to visit the forum online? Whatever. You can do it, and other stuff too.
- I’m a Google fanboy.
Your positive and/or negative feedback on this decision is welcome and appreciated.
To be continued …