The New Game Plan for 2008

It’s been a few weeks since this poor little blog has had any attention. Don’t worry, I’m still very much alive and, as of today, I’m back at the keyboard with a smile. For those of you that know me and my work schedule, you wont be surprised to hear that these last few weeks has been a total blur. Between traveling back and forth to L.A., wrapping up year end projects and getting married, I haven’t had much time to tinker on my own projects and blogging for enjoyment quickly took a back seat to higher-priority activities. My apologies. The good news is that I got some great relax time this weekend to decompress and I’m back in action with a new game plan for 2008 that I hope will help make my free time spent at the keyboard more focused and enjoyable. Here’s what’s on the horizon…

New Year, New Strategy

After a lot of consideration and thought, I’ve decided to change the theme and purpose of steffanantonas.com and transfer my personal blogging to a different domain name. Buying my own domain name and getting into the nuts and bolts of Wordpress this year has been a great learning experience. Not only has it given me the opportunity to connect with some great people I would have never met otherwise, I’ve also  learned a lot about being an active member of the blogosphere and what it means to maintain and manage a public site with my name attached to it. I had originally decided to go with “my name dot com” as the title of my blog because I wanted to own and control that top spot for my name at the search engines. I think that owning your own domain name is an important step towards managing your online identity if you plan on establishing and building a creative presence online, and it’s a step I’m glad I took. However, as I’ve grown, I’ve discovered other interests – Wordpress Theme Design, for example is something I’ve already started dabbling in, and I’d eventually like a place to display my future work in a professional manner as a budding designer. So, although I will still own and maintain steffanantonas.com, I’ve decided I don’t want it to be just a personal blog anymore. Rather, I’m going to use it to showcase all of my future work online. It’s an exciting decision, one that I am confident will pay dividends in the long run. So something with a more professional look and feel is going to take the place of this blog and become a place where people can find out how to contact me, get news updates on what I’ve been up to and find links to my online projects and wordpress themes. To that end, I recently purchased a copy of Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme which will become the new face of this site. Thanks goes out to Brian for his help with the customizations that you’ll see soon. Both this site and my new blog are currently in the works and will be up in the coming days. Stay tuned for the official launch of my new sites. Until then, happy surfing.