Fixpert

I think most creative folks have this desire to redesign their own web site about once every five seconds. I’ve managed to move to the other end of the spectrum and actually really neglect some core features and enhancements that this site has been needing for umm, a couple years now. For example, when you’re a new visitor and you post a comment, you get no confirmation message, so lots of people post the same comment multiple times. Easy fix, I know I need to do it, just…haven’t.

This site is a little…ghettoey. I’m a poor landlord. The faucet leaks, there’s mice, it smells musty. I wish I could make promises to you that it will improve some time soon, but I can’t. Fact is, I’m just too damn busy and this neglected place quickly falls to the bottom of the priority list when times get hectic.

But! I think a really good indicator that it’s actually time to do a full overhaul is when you’ve stopped posting with any frequency — as is the case with me. I visit Fixpert every so often, look at it, feel a lack of connection with it’s current look and feel, sigh feeling a bit overwhelmed, and quickly alt-tab my way over to something else more immediately actionable.

It doesn’t help that I usually have about 2 dozen ideas for extra projects that I’d like to tackle when I have the time. My idea firehose just gets pointed straight into my stack o’ sketchbooks where 1 of 20 ideas will see the light of day. The rest remain in the sketchbook, only to become…musty.

But check this out. Playing around on The Wayback Machine:

Fixpert circa 2004

Fixpert circa 2005