Despite all the naysayers claiming I’d made a mistake by mentioning my plans for a website redesign on this blog because: “people will expect in now and it’ll take you six months to get around to it” (you know who you are!), the website has had a front-page facelift. It’s still not finished: the colourscheme hasn’t changed, I’m not happy with the way the section titles look and there’s no automation (meaning I have to manually update everything every time I write a new blog post, for example); but at least there are tidbits from all the different site pages as soon as you arrive. Hopefully it’ll cut down on my bounce rate a little.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m not going to be around much if at all for the next month, so it’s extremely likely that there’ll be no more site updates until October.
Onto news!
Since writing about rllmuk’s Braid Story thread, my traffic’s gone up from one or two people a day to thirty or forty. Yowza! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised: that place has nearly 12,000 members, but it was still a bit of a shock to find out where all that extra traffic was coming from.
And just yesterday, I got a mention from Usefully Employed. He’s rather respectable and counts some pretty decent bloggers among his readers, so God knows what they’ll make of this here.
Finally, it’s my stag do this weekend, so between all the hair-shaving and strippers and general debauchery* it’s highly unlikely I’ll get to finishing my thoughts on Braid before next week. Come Monday, though, I’ll be making a concerted effort to 100% finish the story.
EDIT: 06/09/2008:
11:08am
I’ve only gone and put one of the .css files for the website into a password protected directory, haven’t I? Fear not though, it’ll be fixed soon.
11:18am
Tis fixed!
*There won’t be any of that stuff. I hope.
