the legs are back in town2010.01.05

Oh, thank goodness.

You know, I had a system for this blog for, well, forever, and then I broke it with my chocolate and strawberry phase (all four of you who remember that and, for that matter, who still remember this wee blog at all, get brownie points with EXTRA chocolate).

The system was simple: the blog shall always have legs. (I went through roughly six redesigns in six years and every single design had legs in the design... somewhere.) Sure, I liked it for pure hotness factor but I also believe, since this poor thing's been languishing unloved for months, that the legs just kept things moving.

Two days and a lot of snarly code later, it finally looks better, doesn't it? Hence inspiring me to write. (I can't believe I just used hence in a sentence.)

For the blog geeks among us, yes, I'm still working with MT 3.33 which is, as of today, roughly a million years old. Sue me - I hate the new (4.x) templates. I like to come up with my own modularity rather than having it forced on me. I'm picky that way.

New coolness to share with you...

1. NEW RSS feed. Yes, if you're reading this in a reader (which is a phrase so ridiculous it makes my head want to explode) then you'll want to update to the newest feed, because the old ones will no longer be updated. New feed link: http://www.angiemckaig.com/rss/

2. The bunny is back. If you're an old-skool Angie McKaig reader, you know what that means. You're welcome.

3. The social explosion on the right sidebar. Yes, I'm fully social and have been for ages but hadn't updated this lovely site to really reflect my social-ness. How 6 years changes a gal.

3a. Note the Tumblr sidebar, far right. It's not fully functional yet - each post doesn't link to itself - but I wanted to point it out. I'll get the full linkiness working soon, but in the meantime you can click the tumblr link at the top (or, since that's really mean of me, simply click here) and see the entire tumblr blog in all its loveliness. FIXED! Mostly, I use it for visual inspiration, so if you're a visual sort, I suggest checking it out.

4. Integrated links (fmly Assorted Sweets) and posts again. Because separating them out was an experiment that just didn't work. That goes for the RSS feed (see point #1) - it's all together now, baby.

5. Commenting now available on link posts! :) Because I post so many of them with a little snark or comment - and from time to time even in the current desert of my postings I'll get a response from a reader via email, and that's just so 1997.

6. Pagination. (You're welcome.) Because archive pages are also so 1997.

7. My ode to Mark Morford. A million years ago he used to publish The Daily Fix which was the best email newsletter ever, IMO, and near the bottom of every post he had a paragraph chock full of fantastic personal quotes he'd written himself - words to live by - and I've crafted a few of my own (and stolen one from Stanley Kubrick) at the bottom of every page on the site, to amuse and make happy those of you who, like me, enjoy the details.

More posts soon? You bet. Stick around.

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