Ron Mertens’ blog

A long time after I updated OLED-info’s design, I finally did it for my other older blogs – Spintronics, MRAM and ExpressCard. I think they look better

So I finally decided to make the move – upgrade all my drupal web sites from 4.7.4 to 5.8. I have 6 of those sites. It took me several days to actually succeeded in upgrading one of them… so many small bugs and stuff to sort out. But it worked in the end.
Anyway I already [...]

I’ve been looking for someone to do some graphic design for me (what with my favorite graphic designer not being available).
I decided to try an on-line site to find it. I chose eLance, and I must say I’m happy with the experience. I had to write a short project description (my project was pretty simple [...]

I finally finished working on my current 5 sites.
OLED-Info has been updated to a CMS system (drupal). This was a lot of work (mainly to convert the old data), but it’s been worth it. Traffic has gone up, and page views has a doubled. Revenue has also doubled, more or less. I’ve got in touch [...]

And here goes another web site: ExpressCard-Info is now officially on-line. It’s another Drupal-powered site. I’ve now got 4 sites on-line. The fifth is on the way, and the plans are then to stop, re-design my existing sites and focus on them, and on the sharewares.