Five weeks since the last post? Wow, that went fast. No apolo­gies though. Look for­ward, not back­ward and all that stuff.

The web­site as it stands now is really just a big proof-of-concept. I’ve proved I can cob­ble together a fairly stan­dard two col­umn blog, with header and footer, and even post to it every now and then. But there’s a big chunk of semi-interesting con­tent in the side­bar that isn’t being looked at because all the ‘Of Inter­est’ con­tent isn’t view­able in the RSS feed or to those access­ing indi­vid­ual posts from the RSS feed.

This is around 60 – 70% of the stuff I post to the web­site. So you can see why I’d want to do some­thing to get peo­ple read­ing it.

I really need to bring my pho­tog­ra­phy back in a big way too. Although I did try exper­i­ment­ing with post­ing to the site through Flickr, it just didn’t feel nat­ural to me. There is the option of rein­stalling the basic Flickr bar. Only this time I’ll try and make it fit in with the design a lot better.

And now that I’m exces­sively post­ing to Twit­ter, hav­ing it inte­grate with the site is damn near mandatory.

While I’m doing all this I might as well upgrade to Word­Press 2.5.1 too (although the last upgrade was all kinds of pain). It’ll be nice to check out the back­end designed by the Happy Cog boys.

Con­sider the resolv­ing of all these points to be phase one of the new mas­ter plan.
Phase two being a new design or, if I’m feel­ing par­tic­u­larly lazy, a quickie refresh of the cur­rent one.

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