• New writing in the Writing – 2008 section! •
2009 will be about getting back to the heart of Marty’s Paradox. I originally started this site sometime before August, 1995 while I was in college, as a vehicle for photos and writing I was producing at the time as well as a way to say “hello world!”. I registered MartysParadox.com in October, 2000 and by 2004 the site had gotten unwieldy to maintain and it went fallow for a couple of years. I dabbled with MySpace and such but I eventually realized that I could easily use Wordpress to revamp my site. I was rather hesitant about making it primarily a blog site but it was better than a site that was out of date and unmaintained so I tried it.
The blog format has worked OK for the last couple of years but it has gotten a bit “old” as a default homepage. I recently read up on landing pages and decided to update things. As part of this effort I am redesigning this site once again, taking it back to a more traditional design that de-emphasizes the blog portion a bit while allowing other content to shine. I’m not sure if I’ll change the theme but the navigation will be similar, with the tabs at the top or the side available to allow the user to easily navigate the site.
PS: One thing I am absolutely sick of is the routine outages and hiccups on the current host. I’ll be investigating getting that straightened out as well. In the meantime, if you notice slow loading times or other problems, these seem to self-resolve in a few minutes. There are apparently many other sites on this server — some political — so I would hope that their traffic will become more moderate (haha!) after the election.
