It's hard to believe I haven't made a full site update since January! Time flies...

First off I had to put aside my Flickr updates for over a month while I re-designed this entire website. The choice to do so was when I found out I can run multiple blog indexes under one main blog component! It has made my updating efforts a breeze. To get a glimpse of the nerdy process feel free to watch the YouTube video I found: {LINK REMOVED}. It was the most simplistic way to do it I found.

In the past I had to manually modify each website section by hand taking the html grid and thumbnail placements and changing it all in GoLive which is an HTML editor. Now all I need to do is add the updates as a new posting and it moves the older items over.

As for WordPress templates I used The Unstandard for all of the website sections: art archive movies & pictures. For the actual blog section I went with Plainscape. I did my best to match the multiple blogs into one consistent look that matched up site-wide.

In the before and after screen shots below you can see how much I needed to change everything from stock.

This includes the page layouts.

The hardest modification came from the section templates. I found one that displayed blog posts as image and had to severely tweak them!

And again for the page layout.

For copyright reasons I wanted to give the template authors proper credit:

The Unstandard template belongs to {LINK REMOVED} and can be downloaded free: {LINK REMOVED}. The live preview is {LINK REMOVED}. The Plainscape template belongs to {LINK REMOVED} and can be downloaded free: {LINK REMOVED}. The live preview is {LINK REMOVED}.

As far as catching up on pictures goes I am so behind.

Currently I have about 25 sets and a few misc updates to upload to Flickr. Doing a search it looks like a total of about 3000+ pictures and about 100+ videos! Those updates are coming soon.