As you've probably already seen, 2011 is turning out to be a slow blogging year for me for a number of reasons, but primarily due to a combination of company-mandated quarterly furlough days and vacation season have left me too frazzled to post much of anything lately. Also, I've been admittedly dabbling in wordpress in hopes to eventually move this blog over to a more designer-friendly blogging platform. (Hence the clever little graphic above). As much as I've loved Blogger's ease of use, I decided it might be time to stretch out and learn something new after I saw it land on a list of Eight websites that are dead or dying, at, of all places, Fox News.
Blogger seems to have taken notice; when I logged in a few days ago, I found the new and decidedly more Wordpress-y look and feel to the dashboard. I'm not entirely sure how I like it, but I'm glad my online publishing platform of choice has chosen to grit its teeth and make a fighting lunge out of the tar pits of tech.One of the first things I noticed, and this has cropped up on other blogger blogs as well, is that despite all the major changes made, something as basic as the Text Wrap function seems to have been left out (hence the centered graphic - it has nothing to do with a recently found love of wide-format layout).
In any case, I've been filling in my snippets of free time slowly filling in my portfolio at NewsPageDesigner, and became "friends" with none other than Charles Apple, who had good things to say about my work, especially a certain cover that got snubbed last year. Take that, NYNPA.
I'll be posting soon with a few 9/11 anniversary tab covers, along with an autopsy detailing why the ones that didn't get picked (but should have).
