Renovated hjfreyer.com, pentris.net launched!
I've enjoyed maintaining Pentris over the past few years since I first wrote
it. It's fun and it has a small following; it gets played a couple thousand times a month, has a bit over 50 unique
visitors every day, and has made me about $45 in advertising revenue in 3 years (yeah, I haven't been trying that hard
on this front). The fact that people keep coming back to play keeps me coming back to improve it now and then, and
recently I decided that it deserves its own domain.
I'm happy to announce that http://www.pentris.net is the now the official
place to fulfill all your Pentris-related needs! It even has a cool new logo:
Previously, Pentris was hosted on hjfreyer.com, which ran on Google Sites. Sites is pretty acceptable for hosting a simple
personal page, but unfortunately I couldn't stay on Sites if I wanted to make a smooth transition from
hjfreyer.com/pentris to pentris.net (Sites doesn't let you do 301 redirects). I had to remake
my site from scratch and host it elsewhere. I'm glad I
did, though; I turned a bland site with four sparse pages into a single page which looks pretty nice.
Compare the old with the
new.
Eagle-eyed readers may notice that I completely ripped off the design of about.me (e.g.). I did so
because it's a good design. Show me an artist who isn't a thief, and I'll show you a web programmer
who isn't lazy.
Check out the new sites and let me know if either of them
cause you any trouble.