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Welcome to the all New XSet

// May 15th, 2007 // Personal

Hiya,

You’re probably wondering what the hell I think I’m playing at. Dry the Rain has disapeared, XSet looks weird and all the archives are gone.

Well I did threaten to do something like this not so long ago and you’re looking at the result, or at least the first part of it. I’d request that you bear the following in mind:

• Consider this a beta of the new site. I’ll be tweaking, adding and fixing things as I get time
• The archives will be back shortly but not as part of this blog. They’ll be in separate sites
• I’ll be importing relevant posts from the archives into this blog over the next few weeks
• I’m aware I’ve probably broken large portions of the internet but itr needed doing. I’ll be keeping an eye on the 404’s and will be adding redirects as I think they are needed

So what are the main reasons behind the changes? Firstly I was feeling a little stagnated, too many blogs, too much effort involved in maintaining 2 systems. The natural solution is to centralise. That said, I still wanted to maintain some semblance of seperation between my personal life and my techy stuff hence the multi column layout. Personal on the left, tech on the right and there will soon be a dedicated landing page for each so those who have no interest in my webby mublings (or my rather dull personal life) will be able to tune directly to the content they want.

I also wanted to intergrate my Twitter feed as that is a growing source of content.  Add to that the desire to do away with restrictive categories and switch to tagging but without the effort involved in re tagging all the old content meant a fresh start was more than appealing – it was absolutely necessary.

Finally, I fancied adding some tweaks and what not to a template and design that is mostly my own. You’re looking at the first part of the end result.

There’s more to come so please check in later on (via the newly Feedburner’d rss feed) and let me know what you think.

Rob