We won't be trying to compete with the other scooter news outlets, but rather we will provide a different angle on information that they don't typically cover, such as tutorials, instructions, and what to expect in certain situations. There is a whole unspoken culture in the scooter community that you have to learn, so hopefully ScooterDad.com can help convey that to beginners and parents.

If you or your kid are taking the leap into the world of freestyle scootering, check out ScooterDad.com! Thanks!

Fast forward a nearly a decade and a half.

I've been a fan of Eric Johnson for many years and I knew that he played Jazz IIIs as well, although he only likes red. I like red or black, just to mix it up. Anyway, a little while ago, Jim Dunlop introduces the Eric Johnson Classic Jazz III pick to fulfill Eric's preference for the older Jazz IIIs that had a slightly different finish. These new versions are not only less glossy for better grip, but they are also slightly larger than the more modern Jazz IIIs.

I recently bought a pack of the new Eric Johnson Classic Jazz III picks at my local guitar center on a whim to see how different they are. WOW! I was really impressed. The slightly bigger feel is hardly visible, but it feels significant. Also, the embossed lettering on the pick is thinner and more raised. The modified lettering in combination with the duller finish gives the pick a sandpaper-like feeling that is just right for grip without being annoying.

My only complaint with the modern Jazz IIIs were that they would sometimes slip because they are so small, but these new (old…reissue?) Classic Jazz IIIs are just about perfect. Eric Johnson knows his stuff. Go pick up a pack today and see how they improved on the best pick!

Current Setup

[Guitar] -> Vox V847 wah (modded for true-bypass) -> Boss TU-2 tuner -> Keeley Compressor (2 knob) -> Ibanez TS-808 (reissue) overdrive -> Fulltone OCD overdrive -> Keeley Katana clean boost ->Dunlop Uni-Vibe with UV1-FC foot controller -> Visual Sound H2O chorus and echo -> Ernie Ball VP Jr. passive volume -> Fender '65 Twin Reverb (reissue) amp

The items I've marked in bold are the ones that I'm perfectly happy with. I don't see any need to replace those items. I might like to put the TU-2 and the TS-808 in true-bypass loops, but other than that, I don't have any issues with them.

Wah

I like my Vox V847 quite a bit, especially since I modded it to include a true-bypass switch. It's a huge step above the CryBaby I used to have, but it just doesn't have the sweep I wish it had. …and then the new hotness walked in: the Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah.

This naughty little girl has a selector for 3 different voices: Wacked, Jimi, and Shaft. The only setting it's missing is "adult film", although I think the Shaft setting would pass for that. It also has an input gain knob, although I'm not sure how much I'd use this, to be honest. I'm sure it would be fun to play with, but I haven't been a fan of the idea of gain in or before the wah, at least in the past.

Like all of the other items on this wish list, the Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah would be completely unnecessary and totally awesome! It's also $250, unfortunately.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Fuzz

I've wanted a fuzz pedal for a while now, which has been a change for me. For years, I didn't like fuzz pedals. They just sounded like chainsaws to me. Over the last few years, I've come to realize that, if voiced properly and used correctly, they can be used for that Eric Johnson-esque lead violin sound. I like to have several different levels of gain stages in my pedalboard and I think the Keeley Fuzz Head would be the perfect pedal to round out the upper end of my drive/distortion spectrum.

From the demos I've heard and from what the Pro Guitar Shop salesman has told me, the Fuzz Head falls into this "violin lead" tone category, which is just what I'm looking for. The sound characteristics, the tweakability (including the silicone/germanium switch), and the Keeley name are enough to sell me on this one. This pedal will ravage my wallet for $189-$209, depending on sales at the time.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Sorry, Pro Guitar Shop. You don't carry Keeley and you don't have a demo video.

Modulation

I like my Uni-Vibe a lot, but it takes up a lot of space since it's two pedals, especially since the controller ends up sitting off-board. The Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe 2 would be an awesome replacement for my Uni-Vibe in that it has many of the same controls, except that it's in one unit and the sound quality is better. The extended rate control has me very intrigued as I have always felt like the range of speed adjustment on my Uni-Vibe's controller seemed short.

I really like being able to adjust the rate with my foot while playing, so this rules out a lot of pedals that I would otherwise consider, such as the Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe. For $250, I can kick my Uni-Vibe into my pedal storage unit and keep the swirling action going!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Delay

Here's where it gets tricky. I've got a Danelectro Fab Echo (just for fun, but it doesn't sound good enough), a Line 6 Echo Park (lots of options, but too digital), and a Visual Sound H2O (echo and chorus…decent on both, but neither is great), so trying to justify another delay seems kinda silly. But wait, it gets worse…I don't want a single delay. I want two more! For my rig, I need a pedal that can handle short slapback delay and something that can handle longer, warmer echoes. I don't really love any of my current pedals for these sounds. They are okay, but not amazing. I want amazing.

For short slapback, I want the Way Huge Aqua Puss MkII. This is supposed to be the pedal for slapback echo and short delay. It only goes up to 300ms, so I can't use it for my longer echoes, but Brad Paisley uses one, so what better endorsement can I ask for? Yeah, I know…John Mayer uses one too. I'm hoping having one of these won't turn me into a shallow womanizer. I can pick up an Aqua Puss for $149, or less if I trust the low-ball sellers on eBay.

Click here to view the embedded video.

For longer echoes, I think the MXR Carbon Copy is the pedal for me. It's small, has great analog sound, and the delay times are up to 600ms, which should be long enough. If I want to get crazy, I'm going to have to go digital, and then I can use my Echo Park. It's true-bypass, has a small footprint, and great analog sound, including optional modulation. People on the internet and at guitar shops are really digging this pedal. For $149, I can have all the echo I need…I need…I need…I need….

Click here to view the embedded video.

UPDATE 2/5/2011: Tonight, I picked up a Way Huge Aqua Puss MkII! I'm pretty happy with it so far. It sounds a lot more live and organic than the H2O. I think it will be great for the shorter delay times I want.

Chorus

I haven't figured out exactly what chorus pedal I'd like to have on my dream pedalboard, but I'm pretty happy with the Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble pedal that I have. It's not on my current board because of the H2O, but I like that CE-5 and its lush sounds. It may not be true-bypass, but the effect is great. Maybe I can put it in a true-bypass loop to help keep everything clean.

Volume

I'm not really sure what to do about this. I read that passive volume pedals can really suck the high-end off your tone. I hadn't noticed this at first when I first started using it (see "frog in pot" adage), but after removing it from my signal chain, I really notice the difference. I like having the volume pedal, but until I can find transparent option, I think it may have to go sit in the corner.

Old Friends

I've got a few other pedals I'd like to bring back into the mix. I mentioned the Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, but I'd also like to get my Ibanez TS9DX back in use. It's a slightly different flavor than my TS-808 and I'd like to use it as the first pedal in my multi-stage gain spectrum. My Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde might make an appearance, but if I get the Keeley Fuzz Head and if I have my TS-808 on the board, then the J&H is covering a lot of the same territory. I like my Line 6 Verbzilla, but it's a little more experimental than I need for most playing. Frankly, I really like the spring reverb in my Twin Reverb. The last "old friend" I want to add to my pedalboard is my Voodoo Lab Proctavia octave fuzz pedal. I don't use it a lot, but I just love that effect and I want to have it ready for use!

Board Yet? Get It?! "Board" Heh…Heh…

In addition to all the new pedals and rearrangements I want to make to the actual effects in my rig, I'd also like to build a new pedalboard. I've got an idea in mind that would incorporate my diamondplate decks as well as a wooden frame. I also want to incorporate some true-bypass loopers, but I can't find one that will accommodate all the pedals I'll need. I may end up building a couple small loopers and then chain them together. Either way, I want to incorporate a signal buffer to try to help retain the high-end of my tone. Tone suck with a Telecaster really…well, sucks.

The Paradox Of Cash And Regret

Here is where I run into a pretty big issue. I want to make a lot of expensive changes, so I should sell some of my pedals I'm not using, right? Wrong. Well, kinda wrong. You've got the right idea, but I have run into regretting the sale of nearly every piece of gear I have sold in the past. I wish I still had a Digitech Whammy. I got $100 out of it, but I'd rather have the pedal now instead of the $100 I got. Would I really play it that much? No, but I hate that I don't have it anymore. I want all my pedals to give to my step-son someday. They would be worth so much more like that than to sell them on Craig's List or eBay for half of what I paid for them. I may consider selling some of my pedals, but I'm going to think very cautiously and carefully before I do. I'd much rather just put them in a box and never play them so that I have them to pass down some day.

Since I don't know if I'll be able to fund my new gear by selling old gear, this may be a long and drawn out process. The good news is that it's something to stay excited about and keep striving for. If I got the perfect rig right now, then what would I have to look forward to in the gear realm? Oh, yeah…maybe I could just be content. Bah! Blasphemy! I've definitely got some of Eric Johnson's tone OCD in me. Step 1 is admitting you have a problem. Step 2 is ditching all the batteries in your pedals and going to AC-powered adapters! Hey, I'm one step ahead of Eric on the road to recovery.

In your FTP client or the file browser in GoDaddy's tools, navigate to the root where your Drupal instance has been installed and look for your .htaccess file. Look for this important line, noted in red:

#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#
...

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 ...

 # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
 # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
 # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
 # modify the following line:
 # RewriteBase /drupal
 #
 # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
 # uncomment the following line:
 # RewriteBase /

...
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.90.2.5 2010/02/02 07:25:22 dries Exp $

All you have to do here is delete the # in front of that line, which will uncomment that directive and allow Drupal to be able to successfully manage your site with Clean URLs. You will, however, have to enable it in your site configuration.

Don't forget to save your file after editing and best practice is that you should probably backup the .htaccess file before editing it.

See how easy that was? I wonder why GoDaddy hasn't fixed that yet. *shrug*

Sources: http://drupal.org/node/89089, http://drupal.org/node/364511

Note: I'm aware that there are several places on the web that this is explained, but it's important for GoDaddy users to know if they are using Drupal, so I thought I would add one more instance of this information to help spread the knowledge.

First, check to see if the plugin is installed and enabled. If it is, let's get the output from the plugin:

<?php
    if(function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb'))
    {
        $breadcrumbs = yoast_breadcrumb("", "", false);
        ...
    } // end if test
?>

The first issue that I ran into is that even though I had Separator between breadcrumbs in the configuration set to », it was still throwing out » (rather than the HTML entity). To force that, I added this line:

$breadcrumbs = str_replace("»", "»", $breadcrumbs);

Since I was using a static page as my homepage and since I had all my breadcrumbs prefaced with a hyperlink to KennyCarlile.com (linked to root), I didn't want it to appear as KennyCarlile.com » About. That would just be silly. But, I wanted that root link to preface all my other pages, so I just wanted to hide the » About part.

        if(is_front_page())
        {
            echo '<a href="/">' . $breadcrumbs .
                '</a> &raquo; ' .
                '<strong>About</strong>';
        } // end if test

Now we get into the real voodoo and black magic. All other cases should be for pages where we want to display the full breadcrumb. For some reason, it was adding multiple links on occasion, depending on where it was in the site hierarchy. To handle that, I split the breadcrumb into an array, then looked at each position in the array and compared it to the next one to see if they are the same. If they are different, add it to a new array. If they are the same, ignore it and continue on.

        else
        {
            // split breadcrumb string into array
            $linksArr = split('»', $breadcrumbs);
            $newLinksArr = array(); // new links array
            $lastIndex = count($linksArr) - 1;

            // look through the links
            for($i = 0; $i <= $lastIndex; $i++)
            {
                // if 2 in a row are NOT the same...
                if(trim($linksArr[$i]) != trim($linksArr[$i + 1]))
                {
                    // ...add to the new array
                    $newLinksArr[] = $linksArr[$i];
                } // end if test
            } // end for loop

Okay, no more duplicate breadcrumb links, but now it's still linking the final breadcrumb. I want to display the page that I'm on in the breadcrumb, but it doesn't need to be a link. Why link to yourself, right? Here's some real voodoo. This is your cue to take off running if you hate regular expressions.

            // get the new array size
            $lastIndex = count($newLinksArr) - 1;

            // looking to extract the text from a hyperlink,
            // replace it with the same word in bold
            $pattern = '/(.*>)([^<]*)(<.*)/';
            $replace = '<strong>$2</strong>';
            $newLinksArr[$lastIndex] = preg_replace($pattern,
                                            $replace,
                                            $newLinksArr[$lastIndex]);

Cool, no more link for the page that we are on. Now we just need to turn that array back into a string and print that string to the output stream and we're done!

            // return links array to string
            $breadcrumbs = implode(" » ", $newLinksArr);    

            echo $breadcrumbs;
        } // end else test
    } // end if test
?>

That's how I solved the limitations of the Yoast Breadcrumbs plugin. I should say that I'm very impressed by what Yoast was able to do, but it just wasn't quite what I needed. I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to do this, possibly easier ones too, but this is my solution.

Here's the full code that I added to my theme to handle the breadcrumbs correctly:

<?php
    if(function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb'))
    {
        $breadcrumbs = yoast_breadcrumb("", "", false);
        $breadcrumbs = str_replace("»", "&raquo;", $breadcrumbs);

        if(is_front_page())
        {
            echo '<a href="/">' . $breadcrumbs .
                '</a> &raquo; ' .
                '<strong>About</strong>';
        } // end if test
        else
        {
            // split breadcrumb string into array
            $linksArr = split('&raquo;', $breadcrumbs);
            $newLinksArr = array(); // new links array
            $lastIndex = count($linksArr) - 1;

            // look through the links
            for($i = 0; $i <= $lastIndex; $i++)
            {
                // if 2 in a row are NOT the same...
                if(trim($linksArr[$i]) != trim($linksArr[$i + 1]))
                {
                    // ...add to the new array
                    $newLinksArr[] = $linksArr[$i];
                } // end if test
            } // end for loop

            // get the new array size
            $lastIndex = count($newLinksArr) - 1;

            // looking to extract the text from a hyperlink,
            // replace it with the same word in bold
            $pattern = '/(.*>)([^<]*)(<.*)/';
            $replace = '<strong>$2</strong>';
            $newLinksArr[$lastIndex] = preg_replace($pattern,
                                            $replace,
                                            $newLinksArr[$lastIndex]);

            // return links array to string
            $breadcrumbs = implode(" &raquo; ", $newLinksArr);    

            echo $breadcrumbs;
        } // end else test
    } // end if test
?>

If you have a page hierarchy within your WordPress site and you want to display (such as in the sidebar) the immediate children of the current page that you're on, here's the code to do it.

<?php
    // will display the subpages of this top level page
    $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=" . $post->ID . "&echo=0");
    if ($children)
    {
        // custom formatting goes here, just print
        // $children when you want to render the link
        echo '<div id="pagelist">' . "\n";
        echo "<ul>\n$children\n</ul>\n";
        echo '</div> <!-- end div id="pagelist" -->' . "\n";
    } // end if test
?>

Please note that this method only lets you custom format the display around the actual link. wp_list_pages() will return the text with the anchor link already wrapped around it. I haven't dug into how to further format the link.

I hope that helps!

Akismet – There's a reason why this plugin comes stock with WordPress. If you allow users to comment on your site, you definitely want to use Askimet to help prevent spam. It's not perfect, but it's really, really good. If you have a very high traffic site, you may want to incorporate some additional spam protection, like a CAPTCHA or some other means, but Askimet does a pretty good job for most needs. The only gotcha is that you need to request an API key from Askimet to use it. The good news is that you can use that key across many WP sites.

All In One SEO Pack – If you want to improve the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your site, this plugin provides a lot of enhancements for you. This plugin offers a lot of customization, but, frankly, I mostly leave it as is. I'll fill in the meta description and meta keywords and then leave the rest as is.

Audio Player – I didn't like the default WP hosting functionality for audio files as I wanted to be able to have a small inline player. After a little bit of digging, I found Audio Player and I was quite impressed with the visual customizations that you can do through the admin interface to make it fit with your theme. Be sure to check out this plugin if you want to host playable (not just downloadable) music or podcasts.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – While the Google XML Sitemaps plugin generates a sitemap.xml file for search engines to read, it's HTML sitemap is less than desirable. This plugin lets you create a page and then drop a code anywhere in the page to render a customizable, paged sitemap.

Enable Media Replace – Recently, I needed to replace some images on my photography site, 528Digital.com. I was disappointed to learn that my options were to either manually FTP and replace the image (maintaining the same file dimensions and name manually) or to delete the image, upload a new one, and then re-insert that new image into the post. That was unacceptable to me. Thankfully, I ran into this plugin that just adds one little bit of functionality to the Edit mode in managing your media that allows you to replace the file by uploading a new one. It maintains the same references, filename, etc., so you don't have to make any further edits. Just replace and you're done!

Exec-PHP – To be honest, I'm not sure if I can remember an instance when I've used this, except for with PicasaWebScraper, but I like to have it installed for the case when I might need it some day. It allows you to put executable PHP into the body of your posts or pages. This is great when you want to use WP as more of a content management system and you need to inject some dynamic functionality. You should, however, be careful with this plugin if you have non-technical users as they could cause a problem or break some PHP code written by someone else when editing content. EDIT: I recently found that runPHP has some of the features that Exec-PHP lacks, such as enabling for a specific page/post and you can specify access by role.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin generates an XML sitemap of your site's content for search engines to read. This helps with content indexing for search engines and you can leverage it using Google's Webmaster Tools to check for broken links.

Improved Include Page – I only used this plugin briefly before I changed my mind on how I wanted to do something, but it allows you to include page content within your theme. For example, you might want a small block of a theme that appears on every page that is editable via the normal page/post editing means, rather than just through manual editing of a text widget.

KB Advanced RSS Widget – WordPress comes with an RSS widget, but the styling/display options are practically non-existent. If you want to be able to style the display of your RSS widget to fit within your theme, you definitely want to try this plugin.

Lightbox 2 – I'm sure you've seen those fancy image popups where the rest of the page looks like you've turned the lights down while a big version of the image you clicked on is displayed in the foreground: that's Lightbox. There are a lot of other plugins and features that can use Lightbox, but you can also use it by itself.

Sociable – If you've ever wanted to add those little icons to a dozen or more different social media sites for users to submit your links, this is the plugin you need. It's highly configurable with many, many different social sites to choose from, and it includes links to email and print the content.

TinyMCE Advanced – I really don't know why this isn't part of the default install of WordPress. Maybe there are other options that people like so they leave it up to you to choose which plugin you want to use, but the default WYSIWYG editor is really insufficient for anything more than basic rich text editing. With this plugin, you get a lot of the missing functionality and a lot of customization to suit your needs.

Unfancy Quote – I really hate curly quotes. You know, the ones that MS Word gives you. WordPress has curly quotes by default so your quoted text “looks like” this "rather than like this". Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but I pretty much never want curly quotes unless I'm writing a novel, in which case I will use Word. This plugin changes the default rendering of quotes so that they appear as you actually enter them.

Viper's Video Quicktags – Embedding videos into your posts can sometimes be tricky. Viper's Video Quicktags plugin helps make this process easier and it's customizable. This works especially well if you use YouTube a lot. You can even specify the default dimensions of the player, which really helps.

WP-DBManager – I've always been paranoid about losing the data in my blog. I ran into this plugin a year or so ago, which not only regularly backs up your WP install, but it also emails you the file. I've been using this on every WP site since.

WP Super Cache – Super Cache is a bit of a dual-edged sword because if you forget that you're running it, it can cause quite a headache. It caches your WP pages into static content so they can be served much more quickly. This is great if your site hits Digg or gets Slashdotted, but if you're trying to debug a theme tweak or some other change, it can be a huge pain if you forgot to turn it off. The other thing about this plugin is that if you're reading my blog, your site probably doesn't get enough hits for you to really need this. And yes, I know I don't need it either.

Yoast Breadcrumbs – If you want to use breadcrumb navigation on your site, this is the best plugin I've found, and even this needed some behavior modification at the page-render level. I'll probably post up the details of those tweaks at a later date, but this is a really good place to start if you want breadcrumbs. [Edit: Here's the link to the post I mentioned that I would write.]

If you've got any must-have plugins that you'd like to recommend, I'd love to hear about them. Leave a comment with your thoughts, a description, and a link to the plugin if you want to suggest one. Happy WordPressing!

In a standard web server environment, each domain and subdomain has it's own directory, usually under a hosting directory, like this:

~/
     myprimarydomain.com/
          www/
               index.html
               ...
          somesubdomain/
               index.html
               ...
     myotherdomain.net/
          www/
               index.html
               ...
          someothersubdomain/
               index.html
               ...

Unfortunately, with the Godaddy shared hosting plans, some domain must be the primary domain and it must live in the root. That is, you'll end up with a directory structure like this.

~/
     footer.php
     header.php
     index.php
     images/
          ...
     javascript/
          ...
     myotherdomain.net/
          index.php
          ...
     picturessubdomainforprimarydomain/
          index.php
          ...
     someotherdomain.org/
          index.php
          ...
     ...

As you can see, this gets pretty muddy when you have the code for a website for your primary domain mixed in with your other domains and subdomains. Unfortunately, there's no way to completely fix this issue with the inexpensive hosting plans. However, you do have a few options to organize your hosting directory.

Option 1 – The "Primary Domain Gets Screwed" Solution

You can setup a domain that you don't care about for the primary hosted domain. Then, just don't put anything in the root and start organizing your domains in folders with subdomains in those folders. With that method, you have to buy an extra domain that you aren't going to use.

Another way you can do this is with a root-level redirect. You can put a single redirect in the root to point the primary domain to its properly nested directory. The problem with this is that you are going to get a long junky URL (after redirect, http://www.mydomain.com/managed_domains/mydomain.com/www/index.php) for the primary domain unless you can get mod_rewrite to work with GoDaddy. I haven't tried this, but I suspect you won't be able to rewrite the URLs in a pretty manner as you aren't allowed access to the Apache httpd.conf file.

Option 2 – The "Try To Keep The www Subdomain Content For Your Primary Domain Well-Organized/Minimal And Manage All Your Other Domains And Subdomains Correctly" Solution

Okay, maybe that solution needs a better name.

This is the solution I'm currently using. My kennycarlile.com is my primary hosted domain, so I have to keep my www content in the root. I wanted to organize my other domains (and subdomains for kennycarlile.com), so I put my www.kennycarlile.com content in the root and then created a folder for other domains called "000_other_domains". I chose this name, with leading 0's because that will force it to always (well, in theory) put that directory first in an alphabetical listing of the parent directory.

Within ~/000_other_domains/, I then create a folder for each domain, independent of the subdomain. That is, I have ~/000_other_domains/kennycarlile.com/ as a parent folder for all my other subdomains. For this case where this is for the primary domain, the www directory exists at the root (~/), but all other domains exist in this directory:

~/
     000_other_domains/
          528digital.com/
               www/
          frofrolynx.com/
               www/
          kennycarlile.com/
               demo/
               wiki/
               [www/ does not exist here because this is the
                    primary domain and it must exist at ~/]
          kennycarlile.net/
               gallery/
               www/
          moonfar.com/
               www/
          nwdirtriders.com/
               forum/
               gallery/
               www/
          ...

While you still end up with your primary domain's www directory mixed in the root with the 000_other_domains/ directory, you have the rest of your domain and subdomain structure organized logically.

Option 3 – The "You're Actually Making Money From Your Site So You Can Afford Some Real Hosting" Solution

If you're making money off your site and it's not just a hobby, you can probably splurge for the $35+/month virtual dedicated hosting that allows you to have a lot more control over your Apache configuration. This isn't a really a solution since the issue is trying to fix the shared hosting problem, but I just wanted to point out this option.

Fixing A Poorly Planned Hosting Setup

I hope that helps someone out there. I would have liked to have seen this kind of write up prior to starting to manage my hosting. As it was, I had all of my domains and subdomains in folders at the root (~/) of my hosting directory. To clean this up, I had to move many of my installs. I was worried about breaking/corrupting my applications that GoDaddy had installed for me (WordPress, PHPbb, Twiki, etc.), so on the advice of one of their very helpful and articulate tech support reps, I followed these steps:

1. Using GoDaddy's File Manager in their hosting tools, create the 000_other_domains/ directory.
2. Now create a directory for each domain under 000_other_domains/, such as kennycarlile.com/, frofrolynx.com/, etc.
3. Using the File Manager tool, COPY the improperly placed folder where your subdomain (that includes the implicit ones like www, except for your primary domain, which has to stay at ~/) and rename the copied folder as appropriate. You should now have a directory structure like ~/000_other_domains/frofrolynx.com/www/ where a copy of your frofroynx.com content resides.
4. In domain management, modify the record for each domain and subdomain (do subdomains first so you can go back and mange the parent domain while you are waiting for the subdomains to take effect, which happens every 30 minutes), so that it points to the NEW location: ~/000_other_domains/frofrolynx.com/www/. Again, this will take ~30 minutes to take effect.
5. Rename your OLD directory to something like xxx_[foldername] so that you know 100% that you aren't accidentally seeing the old install because the domain change hadn't yet taken effect. This also helps you identify which folders you need to delete later.
6. Now test your install. For some applications or plugins for applications, you may have to edit config files to point to the new server path, such as changing /home/content/u/s/e/username/html/old_domain_directory/… to /home/content/u/s/e/username/html/000_other_domains/frofrolynx.com/www/…
7. Once you've been able to correct all the absolute paths to point to the new one, test again.
8. After a day or two, if you feel confident that everything is working as is, you can delete your xxx_[foldername].

Well, that about covers my experience with trying to fix a poorly-managed (by me) hosting account on GoDaddy's shared hosting. Hopefully that will safe someone else some pain and hassle by learning from my mistakes and experience. Good luck!

This is a completely original design and implementation from scratch, new logo, and some new content, although there are some sections of the site still thin on content. I hope to be able to fill those out soon. I've also got a handful of blog posts that I've been wanting to write but have put on the back burner because I wanted this new site to be a priority. Unfortunately, when you have a big project that takes a while and you put it ahead of the little stuff…you end up just procrastinating on doing anything.

I'm relieved to have this redesign done as I think it's a lot cleaner and less cartoony than my previous sites. Additionally, I've been wanting to have my professional and personal content all under one site for a while now.

Currently, I'm planning on the redesign of the Western Skies site to be my next big project, then on to Moonfar on Google App Engine. Also, if you haven't been spammed by me about this yet, please check out 528Digital.com to see my new venture in photography (as art, not for hire).

Thanks for stopping by and look for more upcoming blog posts including tips for domain and subdomain management in GoDaddy hosting.

Paxton has really taken to it. He loves it and he hasn't been intimidated by it at all. I thought the bigger bike might have him intimidated, but he hopped right on it and took off around the seller's yard and he rode around our culdesac for about 30 minutes just grinning the whole time. He's doing great and I can't wait to get him on a track and some trails to see how he likes the new ride. Power-, handling-, suspension-, and ergonomics-wise, this is a much better bike for him.

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I've had quite a bit of fun putzing around on it too. I was going to keep the XR50 and turn it into a pit bike, but now I'm starting to think that this might make a better pit bike once he outgrows it. We'll see. I'm keeping the XR50 for now, at least.