Welcome to hugoschwyzer.net! After nearly three years with Typepad, I had longed to leave behind the “Movable Type” format and join the cool kids who use WordPress. It’ll take me a while to become familar with the format, so things may be wonky here for a week or two.
I was tired of the old “hugoboy” URL; getting a proprietary and eponymous site seems more professional, particularly as I aim to increase my readership. I was also eager to offer the best new feature of this blog: categories! Scroll down on the right, and you can easily find a wide variety of topics from which to choose. I got several complaints that it was difficult to find things in my archives; this should make it much easier. The categorization process is not complete, but should be finished in the next couple of weeks.
The look and design of this blog is entirely thanks to Lauren, formally of Feministe and now of Faux Real, Tho! Lauren moved all of the archives from Typepad over here, and has also handled the exhausting work of categorizing 33 months of old posts. I’ve been a verbose old boy, and she’s done an extraordinary job of imposing organization on chaos. Anyone needing a “blog-redo” would be well advised to seek out Lauren.
Awesome. I’ll relink you and get the word out. I just redesigned my blog, too. I was making them for others and got sick of my old look.
Happy new URL, Hugo! Yay! I’ll update my links ASAP, and have already save the new RSS feed :o)
Steve x
Congrats on getting away from the utter lameness of TypePad. It’s like a whole new blogging day out there…
Very nice. I just gave some friends your (old) URL a couple of weeks ago, and this gives me an excuse to ask them what they think.
Welcome back! Looking forward to the new digs. I was just getting used to Typepad, though… Ha!
Love the new blog (especially the header - it’s totally Hugo)! In the meantime, I’m still with the “utterly lame” typepad. :-)
Nice new look! Congrats.
Mazel tov! May your new site be a good site! (To paraphrase.)
It looks great! Someday I hope everybody can afford to hire Lauren, and that she can keep up the high standards she’s set along the way in the face of having lots of work doing design stuff…
Congratulations on the new place! I bet you’ll love Wordpress. I know I do.
Congrats! It looks great, though it has my personal pet peeve (YMMV, obviously), which is that after I’ve read the post (on the main page), I need to scroll back up if I decide I want to see the comments.
I’m really pleased to see the categories.
All right, I second Wolfa’s point about the comments.
Hugo - that comment thing is really very easy to fix, if you want to do that. Drop me an email anytime if you want a hand with it or any other WP stuff. I’m not a pro, but I’d call myself an advanced intermediate user, I guess.
Gorgeous! But we all knew it would be. ;)
just got over here - it looks great! lauren is a wizard with this stuff…
Everybody seems to do that with their comments; I wonder why. Since it’s not necessary.
I mentioned this on the old site but I’ll note it here as well in case comments on the old site are no longer being tracked. Some if your archives, at least the ones posted between 9/14/05 and 10/20/05, were not successfully ported here.
Oh, I’ll definitely look into that, X; thanks!