Our website NYDiscovery is now more than 5 years old. It's a fun project, mostly to show some pictures and share some of our experiences in New York City. We're doing this mainly for our friends and family, but apparently there are people out there, who are enjoying what we're putting on the site and we totally appreciate that.
Over time the technology (and the language) of the site changed. We started by building each and every page manually with an HTML editor (HTMLKit) and then uploaded the files by FTP. Then blogging became more generally more popular and we turned NYDiscovery into a blog site by using the excellent open source systems Nucleus CMS and Gallery.
Since this time the web evolved (some call it Web 2.0) and it's time for NYDiscovery to adapt. Why running our own software on our own webspace, if there are so many excellent sites out there, many of them free. For blogging we can use Fotolog and Blogger. For uploading gigs of pictures there's Flickr. The glue between all this is RSS, which allows to syndicate all of our content on our own homepage (we use SimplePie for that). That way we're not just doing our own stuff in our little corner of the Internet, but we're integrated into various communities.
We hope that our visitors continue to enjoy clicking around on our site, even if they are more an more directed to other websites. After all this is what surfing the web originally meant.
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