Redesign of spacecoastweb.org
Fri, 15 Dec 2006
Excuse the chaos, we are currently busy reorganizing and redesigning everything. As I write this, the page it appears on is spartan and ugly. The blogroll is missing. The tagline is missing. Navigation is almost non-existent. These are temporary problems and will be fixed over the next few weeks.
To celebrate the site's tenth anniversary of publication, The Space Coast Web Journal is getting spiffed up with a new look and new functionality. When The Space Coast Web Journal started, in January of 1997, it was one of the earlier web journals, (AKA web logs - blogs). First hosted on Geocities, a year later I mirrored it on personal web space with my ISP.
In December 2003, I moved The Space Coast Web Journal to it's own domain name, spacecoastweb.org. Several businesses were infringing on my servicemarks. Rather than litigate, I established a solid web presence that would displace my imitators. Soon, my non-commercial publication ranked higher in search engines than all imitators. One by one, I watched them fold, like cheap lawn-chairs.
During the last several months, I haven't been posting much of anything to my blog. I've been writing for the Florida Progressive Coalition and working with the managers group to develop that project. I've about six other projects that consume the remainder of my free time. During the next weeks, I want to focus on the redesign of this site.
How better to celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Space Coast Web Journal than to give it a major overhaul. It needed one. For a while, things will look inconsistent. As I refine the design, more of the site will be converted to the new look. Missing or broken things will get fixed, dead links will be expunged, the archives will be culled of non-relevant or outdated content, new and easier navigation will be built into the pages and all html code will eventually be converted to valid xhtml and css, (I hope!). Some of this will be done quickly, while some of the less visible aspects of redesign will take a bit longer.
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