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  1. Is an elder in the Church of Christ,
  2. makes his living as an advertising copywriter,
  3. is the author of seven science fiction novels,
  4. is occasionally known as Mister Faust, an alleged singer-songwriter,
  5. is the writer and "artist" of The Home World, a web comic,
  6. is the guy who used to blog a lot about writing (it's all gone now, sorry),
  7. is an infrequent haunter of community theater stages,
  8. is associate producer of a show called Random Acts of Music,
  9. and is someone who went to high school in Wyoming, college in Oklahoma, and now lives in Ohio.
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Saturday, October 6, 2007

Now I've Gone and Done it, or, A New Broom Sweeps Clean  


Well, here it is - version 8.0 of the web site. I just realized that this site will turn 10 in May of next year, and if this design stays up until then, then the average length of time a design lasts me is 15 months.

But with this version it's not so much the design, which is supposed to resemble manila folders with those red DynaLabels or whatever they were called stuck to them. Kind of like what you'd find in an old school writer's filing cabinet.

No, what's different here is under the hood. I purged nine years worth of stuff off of the server and planted this site from the ground up, without much recycling. Before I had planted layer over layer over layer, and it was time to just bulldoze the thing and start over. So that's what I did.

So in a nutshell, here are the differences:
  • All of the previous incarnations of The Word Foundry/White Moments are now gone. Some material has been salvaged and is now in the Useless Info folder. But all of those old posts are gone. Don't worry - they've been archived and I'm thinking about how I can recycle all of that old writing advice I had posted. If anyone wants it.

  • Navigation to my novels has been restored. Actually, it never left, but whan I went to version 7.0, I was in an odd frame of mind and basically trashed my legacy of writing. This version paints a much more balanced picture of who I am, and I think that brief mental illness that led to v 7.0 is over. Heh.

  • I'm working on putting some kind of a storefront up in case some of you out there still want to get your hands on some of my stuff. And my next project is to get the VBS Kit versions of The Terrible Misfortune finished and on the shelves.

  • Part of the plan is to pick up the blogging again on a more regular basis. The vacation is over, right?
I guess that's all. There are still a few places where the doors are blocked off and sawdust litters the floor. But for the most part the new digs are 90% up and running.

So welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends...


Comments

I like this reincarnation Joe, but then again I've liked all your various blog lives. Have you thought of turning Word Foundry into a book format and selling it at your store? (I love the store idea and am happy to see you've got your novels back in view).
Eek! You read my mind. That's exactly what I'm thinking of doing.

See, I've always said you had great writer's instincts!
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