New Blog Design

I made a few goals for 2010 related to my sites and this weekend I finally crossed some off my list.

I vowed to work on my online brand, blog more and differentiate my personal portal/brand from just being my out of date and sloppy blog.

First thing I did was create a new website. Yes yet another site! It is a one page mini portal of all things me. I put it under joshuacyr.com. The new site aggregates my social media, blog, projects, etc. The idea is that over time I can simply pull in more feeds from sites that I participate in and have them auto populate my page. This is still in its infancy, as I haven't decided if I want to include and or how to include sites such as flickr, facebook, linkedIN, etc. So right now it is just recent blog feeds and twitter posts (filtered) plus select photos.

Next I upgraded this blog to the latest version of BlogCFC, and boy was I way behind. As usual I made the process a much bigger deal than it actually was. Mostly because I was dropping the old design anyway.

Finally my friend Robert Squier, who works at Harbour Light Strategic Marketing, helped me this weekend with a new design for both sites. I owe him a few beers.

There are still a few things I need to do. I am not sold on the image scrolling system at the bottom of my personal page. I still need to add a few more links to projects as well. The headers for both sites are near identical. I think that may be a bit confusing. I also need to add an actual editor into BlogCFC. Just ran out of time.

I am very open to constructive criticism, so let it fly.