Angie McKaig - E-Business Consultant and Entrepreneur

welcome to the 2008 version2008.03.11

Well, folks, the new site is mostly done - a few things to clean up here and there, but mostly we're good to go.

What's new around here:

* The design, obviously. Yes, I loved the bunny too and the sweet sexy boots. But it was time for simplification in my life and in my blog, and that's where I ended up. Plus I've always wanted a site with these colors (I also have them in my home and I think they're yummy, always reminds me of chocolate-covered strawberries) and your personal site should be the place to do that, don't you think? So, welcome to the choc-strawberry edition of angiemckaig.com.

* For those of you who loved Assorted Sweets, you'll be glad to know my found links have their very own feed now. They're also rotating constantly on the home page and you can also view the archived links by month, or by tag. Yes, I've embraced the world of tagging.

* Posts will actually begin to happen again on a semi-regular basis, on all matters geeky, business, design and 'net culture - but if you like your doses of Angie more regularly, I'd suggest you pick up the Found Links feed, because that will get updated pretty much daily.

* Comments are back! Woo! Yeah, I finally found a good solution that doesn't fill my comments box with spamfromhell but also doesn't require the user to, you know, read upside down letters with purple polka dots (a pet peeve). It's a brilliant little solution and works like a charm, I've been using it for a year on my pooch's photo blog. So for all three of you who are still reading the blog, feel free to share your comments.

* I have given up on fixing a number of ancient never-updated areas of this site and have lumped them instead where you can find them in varying degrees of horrifying design-ness in Ancient History. Plus, noodling around in there will also let you see my first attempts at HTML and my very first official(tm) web site, complete with Netscape Now buttons and LinkExchange banners.

* The FlickrFeed. Yes, I'm officially obsessed with photography and have a rapidly-expanding list of gear (and wallet bruises) to show for it. I post something nearly every day so if you'd like to watch the mad skillz develop, then keep your eye glued to that little grid. (Not literally. That'd hurt.)

Of all the areas of the site, the thing that's still driving me most bonkers is how to organize the Post Archives, which is just the ubiquitous reverse-date deal right now while I try to figure out a better way to organize it. I tried categorization before but even that didn't work - I think maybe something along the lines of categorization with maybe 5 most recent posts, and then a link to the actual category archives, might be more useful. If you have suggestions on how you'd like to see it/something fun to try, feel free to leave 'em in the comments.

And for the two of you who not only still read this blog but also read all the way to the end of this post (hi Mom!), thanks for sticking with me even though I abandoned you. I'll try not to let it happen again. :)

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