Rain, Storms In Store; Many Changes To WXnation.com Over 5 Weeks
The southwest may see plenty of rain today, along with parts of Texas. A couple of days of rain and thunderstorms begins this morning in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. My favorite radar for DFW is the National Weather Service’s short range loop.
Check the National page for U.S. radars, and your closest city at WXnation.com’s homepage.
You may have noticed many changes to the WXnation.com site over the past five weeks. The wave of improvements (I hope) began on Jan. 20, when the background went from black to an off-white. A friend of mine, Michael Tucker, said he thought he’d ended up on the wrong Web site when he visited last week…
Then on Feb. 14, the site completed its move to a new Web host that I am very impressed with, HostMySite.com. Hopefully the transition was smooth for all users.
On Feb. 18, this weblog got an upgrade and new look.
Finally, on Feb. 19, a smaller URL became active, allowing a simpler way to access the site: wxna.com, which takes you to wxnation.com. (Additionally, wxna.com/weatherblogs/wire takes you to this log, and wxna.com/boston to Boston, etc.) It’s not a huge difference, but it makes it easier if typing the URL into a phone or PDA. (The page for those is wxna.com/weatherblogs/wireless — or, if your phone needs the actual URL like my Sprint PCS phone — use wxnation.com/wireless).
It is my hope that these changes have improved the site for you as WXnation.com heads into its third year on the Internet on Thursday.
