I’ve been putting off updating my site all year. It’s been one of those things which I’ve wanted to spend a lot of time on and never really had it. One that I wanted to do really well, and reflect me, my style, my attitude. Redesigning your own site is probably the hardest of all. You want it to be so perfect that you keep putting it off when you do get that spare moment.

So, I bit the bullet and redesigned. It’s not finished, it will be a work-in-progress (isn’t everything) and there’s lots to add. But it does reflect me, my style and my attitude. It’s summery to match the weather I’m experiencing here down in New Zealand. It’s a fresh start for 2007.

For some time, I’ve been wanting to combine my main site with my blog in some way. I also wanted a fresh install of Wordpress and chose to export my entries then import them into my new version, using a handy Wordpress export and import tool. I’m using the home page control plugin which enables me to run my entire site using one install of Wordpress with the blog entries all still appearing in that subdirectory.

Other plugins I’m running include:

• Comment Central to turn off commenting/pings on old posts.
• Optimal title to reorder the title tags on posts.
• Related posts.
• Page navi for the pagination of posts.

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m off to prepare for our cocktail party tomorrow night…