Well, there was nothing wrong with the old website, originally created in 2003; "There is no doubt whatever about that." But in 2020 Zoho updated all their platforms, and no longer offered updates for the older sites. Rather than just trying to copy the old site, I made a decision to redesign it completely. I wanted to make it a homage to Italo Montemezzi and my favourite opera, L'Amore dei Tre Re, and came up with a basic concept, which was then brilliantly realized by my brother-in-law, Johnny. Many thanks to him! This new site was published on 1 March 2021.
A major reason for creating the site in 2003 was to be able to make texts available to students as downloads. It seemed a pretty advanced thing to do at the time, and came two or three years before Doshisha created an e-class system. For a brief period, the students saw me as on the cutting edge of new teaching technologies! But now it's totally normal to expect students to download things, and I could just use the university's system, but I still like having everything directly under my control, as it were!
The old site didn't have any sort of blog feature. I decided to have one this time so as to make occasional reports on what I'm up to.