Merde: A New Hope

A New Hope

By Matthew on November 29, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tumblr
I have felt overtaxed lately. I spend so much time sharing this and tagging that; I have lost track of everything I output. The internet feels too full right now. I’ve decided to make a conscious effort of slowing the hell down and actually writing, not just “sharing” everything. I’m saying goodbye to my Tumblr. I’m not going to delete it, but I’m not going to be posting anymore. I’m going to focus on this blog more. Focus on getting my work done, and not just getting through my feeds.

Spring Cleaning
In light of my Thanksgiving resolution, I decided to do some cyber spring cleaning. I wanted to clean up my templates, but once I started I kept noticing more things needing to be done. If you look around you will see slight changes everywhere. My intent was to make the layout more organized and readable.

The main page, the about page, and We Enjoy are all sporting a new 3 column layout. I could cry looking at it. It’s so much better. I had put off doing this for a long time. When I started EM, the main page was my blog (I trashed the archives a while back when moving servers). As we grew, it moved from being my blog to being the landing page for our site. Don’t get me wrong, the 2 column layout works really nicely for blogs. As I added more and more content to the main page it became too cluttered. It looked so pieced together, like the monster from Frankenstein. It felt overwhelming to sit down and try and fix it. I thought it would be too time consuming to change the layout. But today I sat down for a couple hours and made this new template. It wasn’t bad at all, and it was high time for an update.

Well, I’m going to get back to working on my portfolio. Expect to hear from me here more often!

Categories: Internet

Tags: ExistentialMedia, Flickr, Resolutions, Spring Cleaning, Tumblr