Design Discourse

So a couple of things to post about…

Firstly it was my Birthday on Monday so I thought it would be a good idea to give my blog a bday spruce up, fix the ever glitchy nav and add “proper categories”. According to my Google analytics click refs, people thought the “about” category was a link to a separate page about me… I can see how you did that, so I went to fix it. And I did.

But then I broke it.

By it I mean I somehow removed one whole database and therefore deleted everything on my portfolio page. Oh, and I broke my contact form. All in one fail swoop! Aren’t I talented?? >_<

The problem is, I had two entirely different sites. design.likeyougiveadamn.com and blog.likeyougiveadamn.com both with different log-in’s, I thought it would be a good idea to merge these into one domain and bin the subcategories.

Ahh it seems so simple now. I already regret it. I loved my subcategories! It was like an instruction or a demand that must be met immediately! [shouting] “blog like you give a damn!!” now it is just measly likeyougiveadamn.com/blog. Pathetic!

So you can guess the next problem is that now all my old blog addresses don’t link anymore and just point to my front page. I did know that was going to happen, but good ol’ Media Temple assured me they’d fix it. So fingers crossed for now, eh?

So the second thing is, can you believe it, the new unit (1.2) that just started at uni is entirely based around group discussions that I am having around set texts, and requires me to *blog* these discussions. More blogging!? Yes, god dammit, more blogging!

So if you want to keep track of that too, you can find that over at designdiscourse.likeyougiveadamn.com. There are 6 of us in the group, each have registered and we input our thoughts on the texts and related links into the blog …so we can be judged on our interactions in April.

You can almost guarrantee when I am not here I will be there from now on…