ChristopherWink.com: Independently hosted and spruced up
The older, Wordpress.com version of this site.
Well this is overdue.
Exactly 575 days after my first post on this incarnation of ChristopherWink.com, I’ve done a massive redesign. If you’re in a feed reader, come on over and browse.
There is so much left for me to do, though. A lot of usability, design and organization elements remain janky. We’ll get to that. For now, I wanted to get over the big introduction hurdle of the redesign.
Of course, when I say redesign, I mean I switched from a free Wordpress.com theme to using a free, self-hosted Wordpress theme, but, hey, I’m tweaking this baby up.
It’s a slightly bold step forward.
Thanks to Sean Blanda, my friend, colleague and fellow co-founder of Technically Philly, who offered a good deal on hosting. There’s a lot of work left to be done for the transition, but for now it sure looks a bit more professional, no? I’ll be going through an overhaul of my portfolio, some of my site’s organization and certainly delving into greater, more detailed metrics. I also look forward to all the normal fun you can have on a normal, self-hosted site. All that said, I don’t intend on straying from my usual focus here, writing on being a young freelance journalist and (very) small time Web entrepreneur.
More to follow on the transition. But, for now, let me know what you think about the theme, called OneRoom. But yeah, please, don’t go and take it.
Christopher Wink is the marketing director of Back on My Feet, a homeless advocacy nonprofit based in Center City Philadelphia. A resident of the Fishtown neighborhood, I am also co-founder of Technically Philly, a news site that covers technology and innovation for the region, and Web editor and business manager for NEast Philly, a hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia. I also maintain a freelance writing and editing portfolio. On this site, I share clips and write about the future of news, social media and entrepreneurship. The opinions posted here, of course, are no one's but my own, and so should not reflect my employer.
Neal
1 Jul, 2009
mazel tov
KonstantinMiller
6 Jul, 2009
You know so many interesting infomation. You might be very wise. I like such people. Don’t top writing.
Simon
5 Nov, 2009
Yeah don’t stop writing. My full support in your quest.
Christopher Wink
19 Nov, 2009
Thanks
-cgw