Nov
24
It’s been the longest hiatus from blogging I’ve taken, but it’s time to jump back in and catch up. It’s been an interesting time, taking the real first vacation I’ve had in years and even staying off line for most of that time.
It hasn’t been idle time, just different. I’ve been going through to refresh and fix up the CSS on sites one by one, and started to dig into mod_rewrite and PHP, even ordering a print book on each from Amazon, which turned out to be written by a couple of the best authors of technical books I’ve ever read. I don’t have ambitions of becoming any kind of expert on either, but will definitely share little tips I learn and use with others on my Webmaster Woman site, which I’ve just started to remodel the CSS on and get ready to add more content.
Right in the middle of holiday shopping season doesn’t seem like the best time to take a break from “sales” sites, but when burn-out hits what choice is there but to shift gears for a while? Not doing anything web-related is unthinkable, so freshening up a site or two or three with some fresh content seem like a very palatable option when a change of pace is needed. For a while, anyway.
One of the things on the to-do list is a remake of this site, so the files have been backed up, themes are being looked at for a new look instead of this drab, plain vanilla (unless I get brave enough do one from scratch or dig into seriously modifying this one), it’ll be updated to the latest build, and have a major navigation change.