Category: Yours Only George

Those of you who are regulars around here know that I had to quickly redesign the Yours Only George web site. As a result, there are still some issues that I have not fixed. There are minor, known issues in the old news section (News Flash). If you have any problems or notice any issues with the redesigned site, please post them here so that I can fix them.

Melanie
Webmaster
Yours Only George

I just learned that my web host is discontinuing FrontPage extensions in mid-September, and most of this site, excluding the news blog, was developed in FrontPage.  Without FrontPage extensions, the site loses the header, menu, footer, and probably the fonts and background. I had plans to redesign the site, but I’m not sure I can completely redesign the site by September.

When the web host shuts off the FrontPage extension, I will upload everything I have completed at that point.  Although I had hoped to clean up all the old code when I redesigned the site, I don’t think that will be possible with such a short deadline.  The site will be functional but may not be completely redesigned until next year.

Melanie
Webmaster
Yours Only George

When you start a fan site, I don’t think you look beyond the excitement of starting it.  To be running this site 14 years is amazing (no pun intended) to me.

I have to admit that I’m a little concerned about the viability of Yours Only George in the new George-Michael-on-Twitter era. These days all you have to do is follow George Michael on Twitter, and you get the news.  You don’t really need a site like Yours Only George any more.  It seems like everything in my world has changed so much in the last few years, and I guess this is just another change.

Don’t get me wrong, George Michael on Twitter is the absolute best thing that has ever happened to the George Michael community.  I love it, and if there had been such a thing as Twitter 14 years ago and George had been on it, I don’t think this site would have ever been developed. It was always my hope that this site filled in some of the gaps of the official site.

So, I’m still here, at least until I’m no longer needed.  THANK YOU to everyone who has supported this site through the years. Also, thank you to everyone who has stuck by the site in the last few years, even though I haven’t been able to update it as much I’d like to. I appreciate everyone, even though I often don’t have time to write back or tweet.  I’m here because you still want me to be here.

Thank you as always to Shannon who started it all … and to George for making the music we happily listened to since 1984.

Melanie
Webmaster of Yours Only George

I have set up a Twitter account for Yours Only George (a.k.a. Yogworld). The links to the newest George Michael news are automatically posted to Twitter. Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/yogworld

Here’s a quick explanation of why you couldn’t get to yogworld.com for a few days.

Yours Only George as well as my other site are located on the same server, and have been on this server for many, many years.  The web host announced that it was going to move the sites to a new server as the old one was antiquated.  As many of you know, moving sites from one server to another is usually a disaster.  When they’ve made changes like this before, it’s always meant down time for the site. 

When they made the move, they basically didn’t connect the Yours Only George site with the domain yogworld.com.  The content was always there, but I was the only one who knew how to get to it.  I had to write to them for at least a day to make changes and get everything back to normal.  Even the mail was down during this time.

I’m sorry for the problems.  Even though I am taking a break from the site because of a new personal responsibility, I don’t have any plans to close the site.  Thanks for not giving up in trying to get to the site.

Melanie
Webmaster