Lower North Shore web sites
I recently decided that it would be good idea to create a Blog focused on the Lower North Shore, since it is a nice way to provide day to day information on the region. The main Lower North Shore web site is going to be www.thelowernorthshore.com, and it will mostly contain static pages of photographs, and general information on the region. The original www.mecatina.com page will eventually just contain information on our cottage in Mutton Bay, and other projects that I am involved with.
The reason for so many pages is mostly related to the fact that I have been experimenting with different web server software since 2005; trying to find the best one for what I wanted to do. I originally wanted a web site that was a combination of a Blog, general information, and current events. I have now come to the conclusion that it is just better to create multiple web sites, which are focused on what each piece of server software is best at. Because of this, www.thelowernorthshore.com is now a Wiki page, which will make it easy for anyone to add content (hopefully). This web site is based on Drupal, which seems to be very good for community projects, such as blogs and discussion forums. The Mecatina web site is based on Plone/Zope, which is a very powerful piece of software, but not very good for the community projects that I have in mind. I do like plone for my own personal web pages though, and I find it a very well written piece of software.