5 Mar 2010
After a brief period of time in limbo, my website has returned with a fresh coat of totally rad. I was trying to clean it up and make it look more professional, but I just can’t get over how fantastic it is. I mean, look at that red thing on the left. What the hell is it supposed to be, anyway? I don’t care, it looks slick either way.
For years, I’ve written my website myself in metapad, a simple text editor. It served me well enough, evolving as I learned how to do a few simple things like CSS and PHP includes, but it’s a bit frustrating to have to open and edit a text file, copying and pasting code around, every time I want to update. So I decided to finally go through with scrapping the whole thing and upgrading to Wordpress. I mainly wanted an administrator backend to make posts, but look at all the other cool stuff it does!
- Categories and tags for organization and searching.
- An interface for streaming music files.
- Easier embedding of video and flash. Check out Wotan’s Throne and a new piece, Fulcrum, if you don’t believe me.
- An RSS feed. I’d link you, but you should really click on that icon in the lower right. It changes color when you mouse over it! I still find that entertaining, and I have a college education.
You’ll notice I’ve removed most of my older pieces in a gross act of self-revisionism that would make Stalin blush. It’s also no longer possible to download MP3s of my music unless you know where to look.
Not everything is up yet, but the bits that matter are. The only downside is that I no longer have an excuse to put off actually writing music.