Well, I can't put this off any longer.
Apr. 29th, 2009 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandolinSome people who read this blog know that I have a website. A website that I don't link off this blog. A site that hasn't been properly updated since 2006, and hasn't been properly redesigned since 2001.
I almost let my domain name ownership lapse, but got a couple more years at the last possible second. I realized recently that's because I just can't stand to look at it anymore.
After 8 years of Java/JSP/HTML development geared towards W3C standards and accessibility, and 5 years of grad school, I have been itching to tear everything down and start over from scratch. It's really a better solution than trying to upgrade what's already there.
It's not just the code, though. It's the content. A lot of my old fic... ugh. Well, let's face it, a lot of the stuff up there was written when I was in high school and I twitch re-reading some of it. And some portions of the site just... I don't know, I don't want it up there anymore.
This isn't going to happen until after the semester's over and I've recovered from the last semester being over oh god May 18th but - it's definitely going to happen. I'm going to be pulling huge sections of the site down and starting over again. I don't know how long it will take, so if anyone asks when [insert whatever here] will be back, I won't be able to give them an answer. I just know I can't leave the page as it is. It's not me anymore. It's not necessarily that I've matured (I'm still as crazy as ever), but... I shouldn't look at my website and go "meh."
So. Yeah. Consider this a heads-up.
I almost let my domain name ownership lapse, but got a couple more years at the last possible second. I realized recently that's because I just can't stand to look at it anymore.
After 8 years of Java/JSP/HTML development geared towards W3C standards and accessibility, and 5 years of grad school, I have been itching to tear everything down and start over from scratch. It's really a better solution than trying to upgrade what's already there.
It's not just the code, though. It's the content. A lot of my old fic... ugh. Well, let's face it, a lot of the stuff up there was written when I was in high school and I twitch re-reading some of it. And some portions of the site just... I don't know, I don't want it up there anymore.
This isn't going to happen until after the semester's over and I've recovered from the last semester being over oh god May 18th but - it's definitely going to happen. I'm going to be pulling huge sections of the site down and starting over again. I don't know how long it will take, so if anyone asks when [insert whatever here] will be back, I won't be able to give them an answer. I just know I can't leave the page as it is. It's not me anymore. It's not necessarily that I've matured (I'm still as crazy as ever), but... I shouldn't look at my website and go "meh."
So. Yeah. Consider this a heads-up.
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Date: 2009-04-29 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 03:19 pm (UTC)I'm not committing to anything either way, but... we'll see how it goes. (I just realized that series is like 10 years old, too. I can't believe that.)
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:06 pm (UTC)Whatever you decide is fine, obviously, but I'd really hate to see that series go; PR doesn't get a lot of crossovers per se, and IMO it's one of the best I've seen anywhere.