This website has sat largely unattended for a few years now – partly because I was focusing on other things (like my business), but also because every time I considered posting to it I was overwhelmed with exhaustion at the thought of trying to bring it up to date. The page was based on a WordPress theme from before the widespread use of tablets and mobiles, and my occasional half-hearted attempts to migrate it to a more modern theme had always left me defeated.
However, in a sudden bout of not-completely-explicable enthusiasm over the last week or so I have managed, I think, to get it working mostly as I’d like to, with a refreshed design and updated, mobile friendly functionality. A few things are still broken in the bowels of the page (especially on older posts) but it seems to be about 90% there and that’s a huge step up from where it was.
I have no idea if this will lead to more frequent posting here, but I at least feel a major disincentive to posting has been removed. I have celebrated by digging out one piece of ready-made content I’d had sitting ready for two years, but had been put off posting by the state of the page: Victorian Planning: Rethinking the Model. This is, I hope, a timely piece given the process of planning reform that the Victorian government has recently announced. (At time of posting it should, hopefully, be sitting just above this post on the main page.)
(Yes, I realise the George Constanza-ish title of this post doesn’t really match the Always Sunny image I’ve headed the post with. I choose to consider that as a meta-commentary on my state of mind having finished the website refresh).
Below are examples of the old design in its last and first incarnations. (The day one post for sterow.com is here).
