Perhaps it’s becoming a tradition that every June, I take the time to redesign my personal website. Well, tradition or not, here it is, the third edition of The Smorgasbord of Douglas Bell.
This year, I decided to re-do the architecture of my website by implementing the WordPress Multisite mode that I’ve become so familiar with over the past few years. In so doing, my website now has multiple sections that allow me to provide a unique focus and design to each of the ways that I want to present myself online. As part of this arrangement, my blog now lives at DouglasBell.us/DBlog rather than on the top-level of my website, allowing me to put a bit less emphasis on my blog. (Which is appropriate since I’m not blogging quite as much as I used to these days.)
The front page of my website is much cleaner and simpler, focusing on providing a brief bio about myself and links to the various places that you can find me on the web. I have also begun working on an online resume for myself, which will eventually expand to include a portfolio of my past web design work. Later this summer, as I get back into developing my WordPress plugins, I will be adding a new section of my site dedicated to those as well.
So whether this will be the redesign that finally gets me to focus more on blogging regularly has yet to be determined. But I’ve definitely been working hard on this new version of my site for the past week, and I’m really excited to bring it live today. It’s not 100% finished, so please pardon my remaining dust. Enjoy!
