After many sleepless nights and much banging of the head to the desk, the website reboot is nearly complete!

While the last couple of site builds (versions) were functioning and able, a good amount of user feedback (and visitor statistics) indicated that further work was necessary. Also on my end, I was unhappy with much of how things were working both as a contributer and reader, so that sealed the deal on renovations.

So what’s a boy to do? I basically spent the summer learning about website design, Wordpress (the ‘instant’ blog system powering this site), and scouring the Web for tips and fixes on how to build a better website. I modestly hope I’ve succeeded…

Although there’s definately still more features and areas to be added over the first couple of weeks of October, the main chunk of work is finished.

Biggest changes include:

• Serious design cleanup and fixing of layout issues.
• Fixed comments so leaving a few words could not be easier (via Facebook, Twitter, etc).
• Moving away from serving (getting) my fotos on flickr.
• Setting up NextGEN Gallery as my main foto viewer.
• Adding NextGEN widgets for ‘10 Random Fotos’ as well as ‘6 Recent Fotos’. Neat huh?
• Major overhaul of the Foto Sets, again thanks to NextGEN.
• Search box now (mostly) supports foto searches by tags.
• Easier to find me via Facebook, flickr, other social networks.
• Pulled many old Foto blogs/posts since they don’t fit in the new flow of things.

With all that done, you’d think I’d be kicking back and firing up my Playstation for some overdue Wipeout, no? I wish!

Still to come:

• A ‘QuickTour’ area for those who simply wish a express view of my main works.
• Reboot of the ‘Tibetans in India’ project form my visit to India in early ‘09.
• Foto Shop. A place to buy foto prints for your very own.
• Foto and words, foto and words, fotos and words…
• A very special mini-project in 2010.

Back to work for me, I think we can all agree those ’still to come’ features deserve some virtual sweat n’ push.