I decided to redesign my site for 2010. If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice that the layout is not the only thing that’s changed. I went with a more social approach. Gone are the technical articles that nobody but other developers would appreciate. Now I’m going to post about music, movies, books and other things that will probably appeal to a broader audience.
In my old designs, for various reasons ranging my private nature to the dreadful chore of moderating spam comments, I intentionally left out a way to contact me and I did not allow comments. With the new design not only do I allow both, but I welcome people to interact with me on the social networks, something I’ve found to be a lot of fun even with the downsides. The new generation of WordPress anti-spam plugins went a long way to changing my mind too.
We’ll see how it goes.
Cato's Life of the Mind is the personal site of Jamel Cato, a writer and database developer who can usually be found between the pages of a good book when he's not laughing with his kids. | 