I’m in the process of creating a separate page for music, in order to support my forthcoming EP. jtspangler.com will be my music site, and I’ll maintain entropicalisle as my personal site.

In anticipation of that, I’ve been screwing around with the Wordpress UI (where all the driving takes place, you could say). One of the serendipitous side effects of that tinkering is that I got the embedding to work, so the music page now has an embedded flash player that you can listen to stuff with, instead of having to click away and hear the music. So go to the “Music” page and check it out.

The other major side effect is that this means I can use Wordpress and the CMS for my music site, which is nice for several reasons (not the least of which is that I’m already familiar with how it works, so the learning curve isn’t too bad).

I set up a domain account with google’s new hosted mail service, which uses the gmail interface but with the @yourdomain.com address.  If anyone would like an account, email me and I’ll set one up for you.  For a sample of what the dashboard looks like, go here.

To see the login, just click on Mail Login on the frontpage of the site.Also, just a reminder that anyone who wants to can have an album on the gallery to upload and store pics.  These will be included in the Random Image box as well.  I’m not sure whether that’s a negative or a positive, but there it is.

The gallery software, powered by Gallery2.1, is integrated with the CMS.  Anyone who’s registered with the blog can login at either the blog or gallery and permissions transfer.  The practical application of this is that every user has their own folder in the gallery that they can use to upload pics.  So get to it.

I’m trying to add that functionality for the forum, but I caught a bad case of the stupids where this is concerned.