Constant Tweaking

I just can’t leave things alone.  I just modified this site (again) by adding a front page with a static welcome message (which consisted of my first two posts here), and then created another page for these blog entries to hang out.

I’m doing all this in WordPress, by the way.  I have used all sorts of content management systems, and have put together a lot of my pages in straight HTML (which rocks by the way) but finally, in the end, WordPress wins out hands down over everything.  And my new, most favorite theme for it is Tarski.  It’s a true one-size-fits-all type theme that comes with the built-in ability to easily customize it so that your site doesn’t look like every other site out there, even though you’re using the same theme.

Brilliant.  Simple and brilliant.  Just like WordPress.

Another site of mine I went and tweaked is the subdomain http://fiction.jjdavis.net.  I added a new graphic for the banner, which was scanned from a invitation to an Atlantian Party during Marti Gras back in the early 30′s.  It has a very cool pulp sci-fi feel to it that always inspired me when I was growing up.  What it replaced was a uber high contrast photo I’d taken of a statue while in Helsinki — while being kind of cool, it didn’t really say anything about my fiction, nor did it ever really feel right.

That’s the beauty of publishing on the web.  It never actually goes to print.  You can always go back and tweak it.

Which I seem to constantly be doing.