More Than Mortal

Wiping the slate clean one more time…

See, here’s the deal. Once upon a time, I had five or six different sites. I ran a mailing list, a couple of webrings, my vanity page, and so on and so forth. So the main page of MtM was a pretty, splashy portal page type of thing, where I showed off my amazing web design abilities and kept a list of sites. If something happened, then I had all the files backed up. No big deal, right?

And then I decided it would be easier to keep all my sites updated if I installed some kind of blog software. I started out with Movable Type, which had a fairly easy template system. I still had pretty sites, and a way of keeping my updates intact. All was good.

And then Movable Type started sucking, and I went over to WordPress. I love WordPress, don’t get me wrong, but I had neither the time nor the patience to learn how to make templates.

In short, I got lazy. (Something very similar happened when LJ switched to the S2 style system.)

And because the site was ugly, I didn’t do so much with it. So my main update blog wasted away, my personal site wasted away, and I really wasn’t doing that much with my webspace.

And here is where we get to the crucial bit. See, a couple of times I’ve tried to do something more public than my LiveJournal, which worked with… Varying levels of success. But I’ve started thinking of… Lots of things, really, like how every other site you sign up for has a blog feature, and what to do with all those blogs. Also relevant is the fact that I’m roleplaying a lot these days, which means that I don’t spend as much time logged into my LiveJournal account.

Also, I really miss having a pretty site to show off.

So here’s how it goes. I’m not doing that much with the main MtM page. This annoys me. And if I’m going to have a self-hosted blog, it shouldn’t be consigned to a subdomain while the main page is just rotting away. So the old vanity page is redirecting here now, the old site update blog (for sites I never updated in the first place!) is going away, and I’m making a fresh start. I’m going to try to get a decent design for once, make this place actually worth visiting, and then… We’ll see.

I’m also setting Thorn Garden up again, and I may even try to revive the Neitherland project. Neitherland, for those of you who don’t know, was my attempt at a webcomic, which died in infancy because I can’t draw. What I’m thinking of doing now is doing a set of short stories and seeing if I might lure in an artist this way. I stumbled across some (really horrible) drawings I did for the Neitherland Tarot — I could do the Major Arcana as flash fiction, which would give people a feel for the world without actually giving away any vital plot. (Yes, Neitherland insists on having its story told in comic form. I’ve learned not to argue with my own stories — it never ends well.)

Anyway. New version coming soon. Wish me luck.