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Site revamp

I spent about 10 hours today rearranging this website. And voila, a new layout for the main page, a new blog (the sidelinks blog on the right), a new place for the photoblog, and general maintenance like removing the comments forms from old entries. Here is a list of the main changes:

Less comments - even though i have MTBlacklist on, i get a lot of comment spam and i got tired of having to delete them every day. So i decided to only open comments on a case-by-case basis and close all old entries for comments. I set up a mail form where you can send email if you have something cool/interesting/important to say to me.

More links - I save a lot of links in this blog that don't need much witty commentary, so i set up a sidelinks feature. The cool thing is that once i set up the Linklog archives properly (i just have to design the templates) the links will have category and date archives, so they will act like a bookmark system as well as a blog.

More photos - like i said yesterday, Flickr promises to be just the tool i needed to be able to finally have a frequently updated photoblog. The old photo category in the personal blog served as the photoblog until yesterday, but it was such a nuisance to post photos to it - resizing, cropping, uploading, inserting, layouting - that i just didn't feel like spending the time necessary to post a proper photo entry. (Which explains why the last proper photoblogging entry in that category is dated November 04, 2003...). So now, look out photoblogging world, here i come! The latest 10 photos will be listed in the center column on the front page here, linked to my photostream page at Flickr.

Plus, i decided to put the latest entry from my mktg blog on the front page as well. Now the page really reflects what this site is - and has been - all about: it's a personal blog, a link repository, a photoblog, and a marketing blog all in one. My sandbox.

I leave the comments open on this entry for now, please let me know what you think of the new layout! :)