It's a bit embarrassing, but up until now I hadn't updated BluegrassNet since January 21, 2002. That is just sad. Well, since I'm on vacation for the holidays, I decided to migrate the site to a new format that is much more maintainable.

The previous version of the site was pretty much entirely hand coded HTML which made it really difficult to change anything (especially site-wide). I looked at a number of content managment systems such as Drupal and Joomla but realized they were really a bit more than I needed. To keep things simple, and since it really does everything I need for a site of this type, I decided to just use Google Sites. It's easy to update and so I should be able to be more responsive to requests and do more frequent updates.

I've not found a good way to migrate the entire 1200 song lyrics database to Google Sites, so I'm going to be doing it pretty much manually. Unfortunately, it is going to take me some time to get them all migrated so there may be a period of time when the lyrics database is not available.

Anyway, welcome to the new BluegrassNet and please bear with me as I get the old data migrated and get the new stuff in place.