Two more projects
This last week I felt the election fallout from the people around me. I had to do something.
Monday morning early in the shower I was thinking that there really should be a site that gathered neopagan and pagan related news. I thought maybe I could ask on reddit. Then I thought maybe I should just host one if I could set it up so it wouldn't need much from me to keep it going. I thought about asking for help on reddit. Then I thought about researching.
It took me about an hour or so from the shower to decide that it was possible and I could mostly do it with software I already had. The next step was designing a logo.
I always start a project by designing a logo. Even if I end up with a different logo or no logo at all. I'm very visually oriented.
I had to pick a name. Pagan Vigil Something was obvious since I was going to use the www.paganvigil.net addy. I wanted to use something like a newspaper name. I thought about Report, and settled on Record. A few days later I changed it to Reader and reworked the logo slightly. The Pagan Vigil Reader it was. After all, it's basically an aggregator using RSS feeds.
PVR is a pretty simple site. I used an earlier version of the same Rapid Weaver Theme I used for Pagan Vigil and made the necessary changes to the index page. Now the logo would go back to the main page.
One little touch that I was particularly proud of was renaming the page to de-emphasize the site name. The browser title on the main page is "PVR • neopagan headlines & news from around the World." That way the slogan gets more attention than the site name, especially on the stat counts.
From shower to taking the site online, it took a day and a half.
Based on suggestions from reddit and other readers I tried to make it easier to use. I went with a simpler palette. I set up a makeshift mobile site until I got a proper one worked out. I consolidated the feeds and made it bigger. I added separate pages for each dedicated feed. I took out the links in the title for my other sites and created a NeoWayland Network feeds page.
Along the way I also resurrected a bare-bones version of the NeoWayland NetWork, it will sort of be my personal homepage instead of working blogs like three of the others. I also fixed the logo on this site again.
I'm going to have to create a dedicated mobile sub site, I may be able to do that with my existing themes. Then I'll add a detect and redirect page.
It's taken more time than I thought but I'm satisfied.
There is one more issue I haven't solved yet. For some reason, the PVR badges I put together in Typestyler have extra space around them. The new logo does too, but it's not as critical there. Trimming doesn't fix the problem entirely.
Monday morning early in the shower I was thinking that there really should be a site that gathered neopagan and pagan related news. I thought maybe I could ask on reddit. Then I thought maybe I should just host one if I could set it up so it wouldn't need much from me to keep it going. I thought about asking for help on reddit. Then I thought about researching.
It took me about an hour or so from the shower to decide that it was possible and I could mostly do it with software I already had. The next step was designing a logo.
I always start a project by designing a logo. Even if I end up with a different logo or no logo at all. I'm very visually oriented.
I had to pick a name. Pagan Vigil Something was obvious since I was going to use the www.paganvigil.net addy. I wanted to use something like a newspaper name. I thought about Report, and settled on Record. A few days later I changed it to Reader and reworked the logo slightly. The Pagan Vigil Reader it was. After all, it's basically an aggregator using RSS feeds.
PVR is a pretty simple site. I used an earlier version of the same Rapid Weaver Theme I used for Pagan Vigil and made the necessary changes to the index page. Now the logo would go back to the main page.
One little touch that I was particularly proud of was renaming the page to de-emphasize the site name. The browser title on the main page is "PVR • neopagan headlines & news from around the World." That way the slogan gets more attention than the site name, especially on the stat counts.
From shower to taking the site online, it took a day and a half.
Based on suggestions from reddit and other readers I tried to make it easier to use. I went with a simpler palette. I set up a makeshift mobile site until I got a proper one worked out. I consolidated the feeds and made it bigger. I added separate pages for each dedicated feed. I took out the links in the title for my other sites and created a NeoWayland Network feeds page.
Along the way I also resurrected a bare-bones version of the NeoWayland NetWork, it will sort of be my personal homepage instead of working blogs like three of the others. I also fixed the logo on this site again.
I'm going to have to create a dedicated mobile sub site, I may be able to do that with my existing themes. Then I'll add a detect and redirect page.
It's taken more time than I thought but I'm satisfied.
There is one more issue I haven't solved yet. For some reason, the PVR badges I put together in Typestyler have extra space around them. The new logo does too, but it's not as critical there. Trimming doesn't fix the problem entirely.
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