I’m working on a new post this morning from the beach at Key Biscayne. think I could get used to this somewhat unorthodox writing studio.

Technology has it’s advantages.

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Okay, it isn’t done, but it is mostly done. The new website design is in place and ready to roll. The entire site is now running on WordPress, which is the same software LivMusic Interactive ran on before. Wordpress allows the site to be updated much more quickly and easily, so anytime I write a post or an article, I don’t have to go through a chain of tasks that would make an Army Sergeant weep.

I will still write full articles and they’ll be stored under the Articles category. If you want to view only the articles and filter out my daily croons, you can just select the Articles category on the right sidebar. I will also be making an articles archive page, so that the articles can be referenced by title and date. To login or register (so that you can post comments on the site) just look under the Meta heading in the right sidebar.

One great way to keep up with the goings on here at LivMusic is to subscribe to the RSS feed, which is available at the top of the right sidebar along with a few of the most recent posts. You can access the full feed by clicking on the RSS icon. To subscribe to the feed simply copy and paste the URL on the feed page (http://feeds.feedburner.com/livmusic) into your newsreader. If you were a subscriber to the old LMI feed, then you will need to update to the new feed. LMI is no longer an active feed.

So there you have it, a makeover for LivMusic. Special thanks go out to Andrea Mignolo, who designed the beautiful WordPress theme, Oulipo, that I customized for this site. I hope you like it and find it useful. I know I am looking forward to writing more, and updating web pages less!

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When I first launched this website in 2005, it was born from heaps of coffee, bleary eyes, and the late nights that created them. I don’t think I slept more than four hours in a single night for 2 months during the early stages. Now, as I redesign and reinvent the website — in hopes that more of my time can be spent actually writing than getting mired in a mass of pasted text, HTML, and PHP — I have found that the late nights have returned.

If you have followed LivMusic for a while, then you know that I have been dormant for some time. The truth is, maintenance of the site became too difficult to continue in my busy life (a life which grew to a previously unimagined level of busy during the last year). Now, however, I am able to return my focus to the site. But before I could resume writing I knew the site needed a makeover, so it was time to get to work planning and redesigning. Now, after applying a lot of virtual elbow grease, there is a shiny new design for the blog (complete with a new logo/banner by yours truly) running on the newly updated WordPress 2.8.2, with more changes in the hopper. I will keep you informed about changes as they happen, but that is not the purpose of this post. No, the purpose of this post is simply to write, to take those first steps out of the chute and get down the track. It is 2am right now, and I have been working on the website for much of the night. But before I call it a day, before night makes that subtle transition into morning, I thought I’d let you know that I’m still here, that I’m working on the site, and that most importantly, I’m writing again.

The late nights have returned. Coffee donations accepted.

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