My web host finally got back up and running two days after my launching into my 15 minutes of niche internet “fame.” I tore down my aborted VidZone redesign cum school project and put up a barebones resume to try to capitalize on any potential employers who may have been searching for more information. Slowly and surely I’m getting up a new site, all hand-crafted by yours truly. I’m going to reposition the site as sort of a professional blog and portfolio to develop my “brand.” After all, designers can’t show code or art, so we need to find a way to make tangible our crazy ideas and unique perspectives and opinions.

I spent today looking for and configuring a blog solution for my website’s re-re-re-…re-launch and settled on WordPress solely based on the one tutorial someone wrote on how to hack it to fit within a pre-existing website design. If I’d looked at blogging solutions sooner, I probably would have realized it would be pointless to worry about designing a website when the blogging software can do everything a normal website does with zero coding hassle. But I’m stubborn, so I’m going to hassle myself with coding anyway; it’s always a good, hair-tearing exercise. CSS layout is a pain in the butt, powerful and flexible as it may be. I’ve had to fight off the temptation to just use good ol’ reliable tables, and I thankfully made a breakthrough. Still, there is some WTF-ery.

I plan to import a select few relevant LiveJournal posts, but unfortunately without yet more mind-numbing manual sorting, it’s either one month at a time or the whole shebang, rather than individual posts. Initially I didn’t want to use a PHP/MySQL-based blog solution because I thought I would eat up my 100MB database in no time. But do you know what? After downloading the entirety of my eight-year blogging history (over 12,000 combined posts and comments), it all amounts to a humbling less-than-7MB file. Wow. Dust in the wind.

I’ve been reading some of the old entries, and they are sooooooo high school. Interestingly enough, my very first entry is about me choosing LiveJournal over Blogger due to the availability of a desktop client for easy post composition. It’s funny, too, that these days I refuse to use Twitter or the equivalent Facebook “status updates” when a large amount of my entries used to be short, of-the-moment thoughts.