If you’ve been sitting here reloading tdhedengren.com like a madman today, you’ve probably seen things acting funky, temporarily freaking out (twice), new stuff appearing, disappearing, and then appearing again. In other words, I’ve been messing around a lot today, and I feel I’m getting there. Sure, there’s a lot left to do, but most of the really tricky things are in place. Loads of graphics and visual fixes to take care of, but still, I’m slowly getting there.

This is as far I’m gonna get this week though, as I’m taking the weekend off. I try not to work weekends, and although it is fun to dabble with something like this site, being somewhere in limbo on my work-scale-meter-thingy, it doesn’t change the fact that I need to reload sometimes. I’m not 18 anymore, working 7 days a week, and pulling a few all-nighters every month.

What I’m getting at is that tdhedengren.com will look like this for a little while longer. I hope you can cope. But naturally I can’t leave you at that, so why not talk a bit about what’s yet to come in this redesign?

Urgent Fixes

These things are elements and fixes that I feel is necessary for me to let this redesign go, at least a bit. I won’t feel “done” with my phase 1 work before these are all done.

• Visual brushup of search fields
• Prettier tag cloud boxes
• Prettier sidebar elements (recent comments, links etc.) overall
• Remade comment section, just pulled the one from BloggerTalks this time around
• Recent Comments and Tweet Tweet at the bottom of the front page needs some lovin’
• A network page (it exists, but there’s nothing there)
• Natural entry points for static content (i.e. pages, such as stalker, about etc.), totally lacking right now
• More visible contact information
• More subscription options (blog, fiction, etc.)

There’s probably more, I can’t be expected to remember everything this late in the evening, on a Friday, can I? These should be the most visual things though, other than that I’m sure there’s a lot of CSS classes and more to mess around with. As always.

Upcoming Stuff

I’ve got a bunch of things I want to add to this new version, some are a bit too far into the future, but I think I can mention a few things at least. It’s not a very bright thing to do, really, since this means I’ll have a bunch of readers waiting for things they otherwise didn’t know where coming along. Still, this is my world, so I don’t need to heed my own advice here!

• Completely redone portfolio page, with some case studies
• Better presentation of the fiction, including series pages
• Reader’s guide to the Orn short stories, as well as revamped static pages (current are just imported from OrnTales.com)
• The stream, mashing up everything I’m writing/doing online, linked

So yeah, I have plans. There’s more, of course, but I don’t want to bite myself in the tail if I can help it.

Oh, and then there’s a whole lot of content to write as well… I certainly hope that you’re a subscriber?