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What a week… Work has been nuts and along with the usual line-up of “things-I-do-for-people-in-my-free-time” (TIDFPIMFR anyone??? :P), getting things done on the new site is taking a little longer than usual. However, I decided to be a little selfish over the weekend and did get quite a bit done.

One of my key goals with this design was to use scrict XHMTL with as close to true symantics as I could. While it made developing for Safari, Firefox and Opera a breeze, it meant that the ‘ol IE testing procedure took about twice as long (and boy was it painful).

Other aspects of this design involve a lot of SEO work. I am tired of googling my name and finding myself about 5 pages in (booo!!!), so we’ll see how we fare after my modifications. I also wanted to lose the 90’s style splash page, which is pretty much as close to stupid and annoying as you can get (What the heck was a thinking???). Finally, I have been keeping a close eye on my Analytics account and I actually don’t even have one person viewing this site anything under a 1024 resolution - so the new design will be a 960 fixed-width layout.

So anyway, internal geekery aside, all that is left to do is take all my posts/comments from wordpress and put them into the new blogging system “Simplelog“. This neat little RoR app, while still young, is a joy to template I can tell you. I came across it via Garret Dimon’s blog and was impressed by how little it had.

Honestly, I wouldn’t say that Simplelog is better than Wordpress by any measure of the scale, but it was just a neat little app and I wanted to get more of my digital life running on Ruby.

After that, there’s only one thing left to do; Test, test and test again! I’m keen to do things right by this new design and I would love anyone out there who’s willing to go over it with a fine-tooth comb and help me track down all the pesky bugs.

Due to this and the other growing number of things I have to do this week, I’m pushing back the (very rough) launch date to sometime NEXT week.

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