Roger Ebert continues to be the world’s most famous movie critic — and he left this world over two years ago.

He began his career as a print newspaper man, then moved most famously into television where he and his on-screen sparring partner, Gene Siskel, became pop icons. If it weren’t for that TV show, Ebert of course would still have been a revered film critic. His ability to imbue every single review with his love and passion of the cinema — whether he hated the movie he was reviewing or not — is still an accomplishment of skill and wonder that perhaps nobody else will ever match.
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Recently, the excellent cult film blog Goregirl’s Dungeon asked me to help configure the site’s DNS. Before getting into the why-fors of the situation, just want to first recommend that if you’re into the sickening and the strange, then Goregirl’s Dungeon is an absolute must-read site.

Anyway, the reason the issue came up is that Goregirl originally was hosting her site as a free WordPress blog at WordPress.com, which meant that her URL read as “http://goregirlsdungeon.wordpress.com.”

Lots of people, though, such as Goregirl, get tired of the “.wordpress.com” extension and want to move to a clean, or “dedicated,” URL, such as in this case “http://goregirlsdungeon.com/.”

This sounds like an easy proposition: Just acquire the correct URL and WordPress will make sure visitors to the old “.wordpress.com” extension get forwarded to the new, clean “.com” extension. However, digging into the details of how that forwarding process happens, unleashes the mystery of how the Internet actually works, which can sound like a confusing and confounding mess. The truth of the matter, though, is that it all just sounds way more complicated than it is in reality.

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I am currently in the process of creating a new promotional website for indie filmmaker Chris Hansen, which can be found at HansenFilms.com. While, as of this writing, the site is not completely finished, it’s in shape enough that I’d like to show it off. So, if you’re so inclined, please go give it a look.

This is the first website that I’ve produced using my own HTML and CSS that is fully “responsive,” i.e. all of the content resizes and adjusts it’s position in relation to the size of the screen. This feature is becoming increasingly important for websites since there are so many different size screen configurations for websites now: Square desktop monitors; wide screen monitors; Kindles, iPads and smart phones that can be held either horizontally or vertically. Chris’s website adjusts automatically depending on what type of device is displaying it.

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