FYI.

I think, after looking through some WordPress themes and thinking of how I want to customize the site as well as a bunch of content and architecture revamps that I’m planning, that I’m going to end up making an archive backup of all the content on the site…and then just deleting it and starting over from scratch. I’ll copy all the snippets and put them in their own categories of archived snippets, but a lot of the old posts, discussions, etc…they’ll be gone. Sometimes you just need to start over with a clean slate, and frankly the years of speculating, complaining, whining, wondering, hoping…they all feel like excess baggage.

Although I can’t bring myself to truly delete everything, which is why I’ll be just archiving it all privately. There are too many great conversations here and too many years of friendship and support to just wipe it out utterly.

Anyway. That’s all. It’ll be a while before the changes go through, just because I’ll be working on new layout tweaks and content on a test site before I bring it live here.

Edit: Layout’s basically done, as you can see. I’m a little brain-burned right now, and I need a shower before cooking dinner, so I won’t be doing all the archiving / deleting tonight. Hell, my CPRW test is Friday, so I doubt I’ll be doing it until the weekend. I think I’m going to basically delete all the “about this site” and “about me” stuff and write it much more succinctly. Same with the concepts page, with links on the concepts page to any excerpts I might decide to keep up. All the posts are going, but I’ll migrate archived snippets to a separate page with a link to each one.

After this I probably won’t be posting as regularly. This is supposed to be a professional writing blog, so I really need to be more professional in posting about writing (rather than just wiffling about word counts).

Posted by on Apr 8, 2009 in Writing Blather | 7 comments

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  1. Sihaya
    Apr 8, 2009

    It’s good to keep that archive. You never know when you might need it again or something. I’m in favour of archives! (oh, and look what I’m in school for, lol)

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  2. Adrien-Luc
    Apr 8, 2009

    ~laughs~ Exactly, miss Librarian.

    I’ve been playing with a site layout over here:

    http://testsite.zenunlimited.com/

    It’s far from done, but it’s a start.

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  3. Sihaya
    Apr 8, 2009

    I love it! It’s got this very personal journal feel to it. But it needs more purple *winkwinknudgenudge*.

    How many years in photoshop before you have the skillz to do something like that?

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  4. Adrien-Luc
    Apr 8, 2009

    Not many, considering all I’m doing is modifying the header graphic and the CSS for this layout: http://wordpressthemesbase.com/view/382.html

    Really I just made a new graphic that fits in the same spot as the old one, but it’s all photo altering and compositing. I get the base images I need from free stock photography on SXC.hu, crop out the backgrounds, tint or draw or erase what I need to, arrange it, add effects, do all kinds of other basic crap to it. It’s not that hard. The hardest part was doing the fake napkin-drawing of Kensington with the tablet, and then adding the fake coffee stains on top without blurring the drawing.

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  5. Sihaya
    Apr 8, 2009

    Still sounds like magic to me ^_^

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  6. Hikaru Kujo
    Apr 8, 2009

    Trust me, Sihaya, he’s a magician. I see him practicing his dark arts in the basement all the time…

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  7. Adrien-Luc
    Apr 8, 2009

    Sihaya: To me magic is the beautiful illustrations some people can create in Photoshop. Me, I’m lucky to be able to sketch.

    Hikaru: …… ~eyes him~ I worry about you, dear.

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