You have probably noticed the lack of updates here. The silence is due to a number of things, most of them involving work. I’ve got the luxury of actually being fully booked until the end of July, and some of these projects are really eating away at my time. Which is OK, I get paid, I’m not complaining.
That doesn’t excuse the negligence of this site, although I don’t need to offer anything like that since it is my name that gets dusty here. Still, I never meant it to come to this.
So I’ll make some changes. Work has started, somewhat quietly, on a simple portfolio page. This will go up here on tdhedengren.com. I’ll move my blogging elsewhere, so that I can give myself some room. This is all besides all the freelance work and twittering I do on a day to day basis.
Which brings me to tdh.me – my lifestream. It’s a bit unpolished and very early on, but it is working and it’s a way for ya’ll to keep up with me if you like.
Now let’s resume the silence here for a little while longer. If you need to get in touch, do drop me a line.
You might have noticed, or rather not noticed, that I’m awfully quiet right now. That doesn’t mean that I’m out of words or ideas for blog posts, it is more a matter of Work Overload after the holidays. The inbox is full, clients are screaming for updates, and so on. As you might know, I’m not the kind of freelancer that works over holidays or even weekends these days, so that is probably pissing some people off even more than they want to acknowledge.
And then there’s that whole recession thing. It is starting to hit me, actually, with no less than four cancelled projects in two months’ time. Not good, but I’ll manage of course. Read more
And that’s just today. I’m not a happy customer.
I’ve just rolled out the TDHish theme here on tdhedengren.com as well (it’s on tdh.se already). There is some tweaking to be done, so please bear with me while stuff looks like crap. Thanks. And yes, it runs on the Notes Blog Core theme.
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? Read more
OK, that’s it for the day. Regular readers are probably stunned by the amount of RSS items, but they are all old, well, almost all. Since I moved from one WordPress install to another, all RSS items went out again, and so did the trackbacks. Sorry about that, but I didn’t do anything funky, just ye olde import/export from within WordPress. It works pretty well, by the way, I endorse it.
I don’t endorse the fact that the category to tag converter won’t let me convert every category though, but I fixed that manually.
As you can see, things are a bit messy at the moment. This is far from done, expect tdhedengren.com evolve during the coming week. I’m away all weekend, so nothing then, but I’ll put some hours in after that.
All OrnTales.com content have been moved to the new Fiction section of this site, and as I said before, the domain points there too.
Other than that, everything visible should work, so happy reading and commenting, as usual. And stay tuned for more. Thanks for your patience.
I’m sorry to yet again have to flag for some craziness here at tdhedengren.com. There’s things to be done, mostly behind the scenes at first, but then also in a more public, visual way. I might redirect traffic for some time to make sure that everything can work as it is intended, or I might just deal with it. Read more
Observant tdhedengren.com readers have seen this text in the footer already:
the tdhedengren theme is based on the notes blog theme and powered by wordpress
What is the Notes Blog theme then, and why didn’t I design a theme myself, being a designer and all? Well, that’s just the thing: I did. The Notes Blog theme is a project in the works, I’ve mentioned it in passing before. This blog is running on a modified version of it. Read more
Yep, you read it right. I’m phasing out rethord.com, and all posts previously found on that domain is now located here. During the day, a 301 permanent redirect of everything rethord.com will be activated.
Meanwhile, say hello to tdhedengren.com in a new suit. Everything isn’t ready by a long shot, but I wanted it up and running before I’m taking off to Osaka, Japan tomorrow morning. Expect Flickr links and posts here from the trip. It’s very much beta at the moment, but I expect every page to at least resolve to something coherent within the day.
My goal is to consolidate blogging related to me, including portfolio stuff and such. More on this in a later post, now I better get back to getting things up and running. Thanks for your patience.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve launched a new blog. You’ll find daily blog posts from yours truly over at rethord.com!
I’ll keep tdhedengren.com as a portfolio and services page – expect it to be updated to a new fresh design, showing off my mad skillz, and promoting myself and what I can do for you, coming this November. As you know, I’ve already changed the front.
