My absence on the blog scene, though not uncommon is fueled more by motivation than laziness this time. I have been diligently working redesigning this site. Sure, I love the oranges, blues and greens, but have decided to go for a more clean look with more features. Why now? Well why not. Truth be told I feel this has been a long time coming and I happy to be getting close to completion. It is my goal that within the next week you will be looking at the new NeighborhoodComputerGeek.com. So what should you expect? Here is the list so far: Yes, it will use Graffiti CMS . Enough said. New Event Calendar...

There has been much buzz around getting forum support into Graffiti, and one solution is to use YetAnotherForum.net (YAF). Now the problem is in most shared hosting environments you would be forced to run the forums under a Virtual Directory in graffiti and that will not work out of the box. The key is merging the web.configs together so they operate off of the graffiti web.config. NOTE : As always, you use this at your own risk and I cannot be held responsible if you mess something up. Back up your graffiti site and database before trying any of this. There its said, you are on your own buddy...