Well, welcome to the new site design. You may notice it’s a WordPress [External Link] site using the Graphene [External Link], with a small amount of tweaking to get things displayed how I want, where I want. More information and the usual rough guide to how the site works on The Site page.
Because of the WordPress “preferred” structure – it’s designed for dynamic content, or blogging to thee and me – I’m more likely to be blogging myself intermittently. Except I’ll try not to. As you know, I’m not a big fan of expressing my opinions that much, I just think it should be taken as read that I’m liberal. What I will end up putting on here is more of the world-building and background ideas for existing worlds and ideas I’m working on. I have a couple of things to write up about on the Alex Jones’ world that would have made it onto the page as used in the older site, if I hadn’t changed, and these might make it up on the new version some time this week.
Whether or not the Site Diary type entires will continue… Well, I hope so. I like having a round-up of changes, even if some of them are very small. It’s been quite interesting reading back through the old entries – I’ve even rescued the stuff from the 2007-2009 Yahoo! Geocities design – as I’ve been putting them on to this incarnation. In fact, I learnt five things:
- It’s been a while since a short story acceptance – must try harder!
- It’s been a while since I put up a new story on site – I have a couple of ideas so that might change in the next few months.
- The Boy and His Dog makes me cry – I remember having a few difficulties writing it in the first place because the dog is actually, specifically, the pup I had before Finn. Unfortunately, Sid couldn’t be reconstructed following his own traffic accident. Reading the story through now, well, what can I say? I’m a cry-baby.
- Reading my posts from Wales’ 2008 Triple Crown and Grand Slam (Six Nations) wins makes me smile – even though I didn’t post much about the actual rugby, it made me smile remembering what was going on off-computer-screen. Almost as much as today’s victory (BBC News, Rugby World Cup 2011: Fiji 0-66 Wales [External Link]. Yes, it was well worth getting up for!
- I owe you some photos of my Armour Class [External Link] Pappenheimer – and a few other bits and pieces in my weapons bag. I’ve reinstated more of the swords section and I hope to add some more photos / sword data. I’m also thinking of doing a post on basic kit and then additional kit as and when I buy it – if only because it gives you an idea of what SSSSheffield [External Link] uses.