This blog is one of my favoritest things to do in the whole world. It’s the reason I stayed in a beach bungalow in Malaysia and never came out of my bungalow. It’s the reason my relationships fail and why I never go out ever. But that’s okay because I love it and I choose it and I’m totally fine with being single for the rest of my life as long as I have commenters telling me I’m funny.
I’ve decided to take it up a notch. Not only have I ordered a straight jacket-like device to tether myself to my computer, I have just upgraded to WordPress. If you have no idea what this means (hi, Mom! ), I warned you this post was for blog nerds only. There is STILL such a fiery debate online about which platform is better, and I was swayed by lots of bloggers to finally switch over. I mainly wanted to be able to respond better to comments and to take advantage of the SEO. Because, seriously, for such a passionate project, not many people are reading this here blog. Still. Since 2008.
I wanted to be more professional so, after spending two full weekends crying at my computer, I decided it was worth the money to actually pay someone to give this blog a re-design. I went with shatterboxx media because they say they’re gutsy. And then I told the designer, Jamie, I wanted the simplest design ever. Very gutsy. I’m not even sure they’ll claim this as theirs, but I LOVE it! Get it!? The robots are saying that humans are funny. Get it!? If you’re reading this in a reader, check it out, man. The robots are laughing at us. Get it?!
WordPress only transfered over 80% of my links, so I’ll have to go through and figure out which are missing. They also did not transfer over the commenters’ links, so that’s annoying. I’m also confused about the feed, so I have to still work that out. And some links don’t yet work. But STILL, I’m already loving it so much more than Blogger. It’s very simple, and is so much more customizable. I definitely feel more legit now that I can get my opinion in the cool blogger debate. WordPress! WordPress! WordPress! If you think that’s blognerdy, you should also know that I’ve signed up for the next WordPress conference, so I will be talking with other blog nerds all about their favicons and traffic tips. Yes!
What’s that you say? You say this weekend is meant to be spent at the beach, frolicking in the sun because it’s a 3-day weekend and that’s what people do? No, my friends. The presidents would want me to be inside working hard on this here blog. Trust me. I know presidents. Barack emails me almost every day.
If you have any feedback on this new design, I’d love to hear it. I like feedback.