herzbube.ch is dead, long live herzbube.ch

My old homepage is dead. After many years of manually messing around with HTML and CSS text files in vi, I finally became tired of it. So I went out and installed phpWebSite. You are now looking at the result of this reincarnation.

My old homepage is dead. After many years of manually messing around with HTML and CSS text files in vi, I finally became tired of it. So I went out and installed phpWebSite. You are now looking at the result of this reincarnation.

The coup de grâce for the old herzbube.ch site came shortly after Francesca and I had returned from our trip to China. We had decided to put up our pictures in an online photo album, and I knew that this was definitely something I could not do with any vi text file hacking. Something else was needed...

I started looking around for a software package that could help me with my task. I quickly decided that Coppermine would satisfy my requirements, and soon afterwards I had the software installed and configured and our photo album was up and running.

The ease and speed with which I had realized the online album project convinced me that I did not want to waste any more time with vi hacking. I was sure that there must be a nice tool out there with which I would be able to easily maintain my site.

My assumption proved correct: after evaluating about a dozen different packages, I felt very comfortable with picking phpWebSite. I think this neat piece of software is the best that could have happened to me: with it, web site maintenance is no longer drudgery, but has actually become something that I enjoy!

Update April 14 2006

You will have noticed that this site no longer uses the software packages mentioned above. Some of the URLs cited above will fail for this reason. I still like to retain the original story for historical purposes.