It happened again, I was sitting at work and I was thinking about how I want to tweak my website every so slightly.  So first of all, sorry for anyone that was trying to access the site while I was moving things around.  First thing that I wanted to do which I thought about last night was to really expand my links to other sites.  I know that I am not the only vendor that you will ever need, and I wanted to reflect that by starting to list links to web sites of other vendors that I have worked with.  This list will continue to grow as I add on vendors that I work well with and I think do a great job.  Right now it is just a side bar feature, but if it begins to get too large, I will have to dedicate an entire page to it.

Speaking of the side bar, if you have been to my site before you will have noticed that it moved from the left side to the right side.  I think this works a little better than how I had it before, but I can easily move it back later if I don’t like it.  But what I really do like is what I added to the top of the side bar.  Before you had to go to the Video Samples page in order to see any samples.  Well, not anymore, now you can view a small version of the video on any page right in the side bar.

Those are all the Site Updates for now, and once this work day is over I can go home and start editing some video!

It seems like I can never just keep things the way they are.  This is true in my business, my web site, my video style, and in life.  Some people may look at this as a negative, but I think of it as the very opposite.  The changes that I make, are always striving to make something better.  In my video production, it is to increase the quality of the video that I record and edit, and today, it is making the web site look a little bit better.

The change is subtle, and it is right in front of you if you are reading this.  That’s right, I changed the blog.  For a few years, I have been using the Blogger service to host my blogs for various groups.  It worked well, but it is a little crude, and you can’t get it to look just the way you want.  When I created this new site in the Fall, I tried using some different tools that are plugins for this site.  The programing language behind the site is called Joomla, and there are several plugins that people have made that will create a blog, however, I didn’t like any of them.  Instead of using one of them, I simply "wrapped" my Blogger site into this one.  And that was okay, but not great.

In the past month, I have been fooling around with a blogging technology called WordPress, and I love it.  My first major thing I did was create an online magazine with my friend called AAVR Magazine.  We have some contributors, and are running like a true magazine.  The next thing that I did, was redo my personal blog that I share with my soon to be wife.  And then finally, today I moved my Keith Michael Production blog into WordPress.  WordPress lets you import from your old blog, so everything that I had on Blogger, has been moved over.  Now this blog will be easier to maintain, and I think it will look a lot better.  So please enjoy the new format as I hope to be writing a lot more.