Jun 29 2007
Wildfalcon Relaunched
My website - with its new design, is now online.
I’ve been meaning to do something about the design of my website for ages. Finally I have. I was being held back by the way I run several different things I had on the site: My blog, my research history, my photos and a few other small things. Each of which was effectively written as its own independent little mini website, with a visual design that spanned all of them. Changing the design would have meant updating all the different sites with the same design. To put it another way, I had taken out a large technical debt on the site by having all the things written and managed separately.
While this has been going on, Wordpress, which is the blogging software I use, has slowly been getting better, and better – more able to handle all the different things I want to do. So this week I bit the bullet, and transferred the most important parts of the web site – the bio and research publications into Wordpress. I then spent a bit of time finding and modifying a theme for Wordpress that I liked, and the result is now live, though I need to find a higher resolution copy of the banner image. Finally I have paid off the technical debt on my website. I can now modify the design and add features much much easier.
I still haven’t transferred the photos, though my analytics tell me that not many people are looking at those at the moment. I’m far from convinced I can find a way to integrate a photo gallery nicely with Wordpress, but to be honest, I haven’t yet seen any photo based site or web service that meets all my requirements, so I’m probably asking too much there.
As for what next, well I am enjoying writing down random ideas, but I feel that I am covering a few too many ideas, and not concentrating enough on what really interests me, which is how the various, apparently unconnected ideas can be interrelated. So I’m going to try and concentrate a bit more on that. Though who knows, I may well need to put up a few more ideas before I can start to show the similarities between them.
