Holy Redesign, Batman!

How's this for a facelift?

For whatever reason, I got a wild hair up my butt tonight to throw together a redesign for this stagnant site.  So, this is what spewed out of my head, through the tips of my fingers, and onto your screen if you are reading this.  Not sure if I'm going to love it in the morning, but I'm diggin' it right now.

While spending most of my writing and designing time over at Raleighing.com, I have learned quite a bit of CSS, etc. and I just wanted to see if I could now put it all to use in one fell swoop and viola!  It worked!

So does this mean I'm going to actually start writing over here again?  I think maybe.  Probably not as in-depth, but I've been listening to some good stuff lately that I'd like to write a little about.  We'll see.  I am still not very inspired by Rhapsody these days.  I've even started subscribing over at eMusic a little although their selection always leaves me a bit disappointed.  But, I do like the fact the songs are in VBR MP3 format.  Great quality without all the DRM annoyances.

Anyway, stay tuned for further developments.  Things are still a little rough around the edges around here and I'm too tired tonight to fix them... so don't cut yourself.

Comments

[Robert of the Radish]

Wow! I was excited to see a post on my RSS reader from you today!

Site looks great! We miss your posts. I want to redesign my site to. I want robust tagging for posts and good search. Also I want to be able to import all my blogger posts so the dates are all corrert.

Any suggestions?

[Chris]

Hrmmm... I am still using TypePad and still pretty happy. With Raleighing.com I occasionally go out looking for a more robust tool. We have so many posts and so much info on that site now that I wish there was a better way to organize it and make it accessible. But, short of deploying a full CMS system, I really think TypePad is as good as it is going to get for me. Folks love WordPress too though... and if I was starting over I might head over there since it is quite a bit cheaper.

TypePad is well supported though. It is easy enough to import your Blogger posts into TypePad (that's what I did) and it keeps your information. Instructions for doing this can be found here:

http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=64#importing_weblog_content

WordPress has good importers too.