For them that care, the site is basically one big WordPress blog now.  We can use the blog feature for updates (like these), and use the “pages” feature to publish our more static content.  Through the use of some plugins and such, we can push posts (like this one) to our respective Live Journals – so not to worry, we’re not going to go become “real bloggers” and forget all you nice people over in LJ land.  We’re also running an OpenID plugin, so you can probably log into erminespot with your LJ username.  Cool huh?

On top of that, we’ve been able (through some custom coding) to get our del.icio.us tags to pull to the relevant site.  So, let’s say I’m cruzing the intarwebs and find an awesome armor site.  A quick tag in del.icio.us and it’s already posted to the armor links section of erminespot.

We’ve also revamped the gallery (mostly by ripping it all down and moving to zenphoto).  I’m slowly going though and tagging the photos and putting in some captions, so anyone can search on my gallery for all the pictures of say, yourself, or of fighting… you get the idea.

Why the swap from the handmade css layout to the wordpress blog style?  Well, we found that there were two large barriers to getting new content out there.  The first is our own slackness, and there’s no code to fix that.  The second was building an html file, getting all the formating down, and then ftp’ing that up to a site.  The blog at least takes away that last hurdle.