lane change

So, after working as a web designer/developer in the newspaper industry for seven years, I’m changing gears. Friday is my last day at the paper, and I’m taking my design & consulting business, kudzu design full-time. Yup. I’ve got business cards and everything! I’ll even have an updated and expanded site up on the business [...]

Blaaauuuughhhh!

See, I would really like to maintain a blog. I also would like for said blog to be pretty. I used to have a pretty blog, back when I used Movable Type. MT — for all of its many shortcomings — is dead easy to design around. WordPress, my current platform, is, um, NOT (not [...]

site update: feeds and tags

I don’t make many posts discussing this site much anymore, but I thought it was worth pointing out a couple of new cool features here.

tags: I’ve done away with categories on the front end and the site is now organized by tags (cf. Folksonomy). The “tag archive” linked in the right sidebar will take you [...]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Changing hosting providers. Web and/or email to/from me will likely be a little wonky for a day or so as the new DNS settings propagate. Kudos to the new host, Dreamhost for making things pretty painless.

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WordPress action

I started the migration to WordPress tonight. I got it installed supa-quick, and I got all my previous MT-powered posts imported with seemingly few hitches. I’ll be putting together a new design (”theme” in WP parlance) over the next few weeks. “Why not design the new look first then move to WP?” you ask. Well, [...]