The Clutter Museum is dead!* Long live The Clutter Museum!
After 867 posts at the Blogger-hosted Clutter Museum, I decided the institution needed a new home. As I don’t have the budget for a starchitect, I opted for tweaking** the Pretty Young Thing child theme that runs over the Genesis framework.
Starchitecture! (The Contemporary Jewish Museum)
“Wait. . .” you’re thinking. “You paid for a theme when there are so many cool free ones?” Well, yes and no. I didn’t purchase it just for The Clutter Museum, but we did buy the Genesis Pro Pack, which gives our little home business permission to use it on multiple sites. If you’re in need of a site for personal or professional use, drop me a line at trillwing -at- gmail -dot- com, and I’ll hook you up with Fang, who has been designing lots of sites based on the Studiopress child themes. At the moment, Fang is grateful for the work, and friends of The Clutter Museum–that’s you!–will get a discount. </shameless plug>
Why didn’t I move to WordPress before now? Sheer laziness. I was puzzling over how to move both all the old posts and their images (images are the sticky wicket) from Blogger, when I had a revelation: I didn’t need to move them–a link in the sidebar would be sufficient, yes? (We don’t need no stinkin’ SEO.) I’ve been using WordPress for years–all my other websites are on WordPress.
So, anyway. . . Help me christen the site by smashing some champagne bottles in the comments section, won’t you?
* Or, rather, on ice. The archives will remain on Blogger.
** And expect more tweaks. I’m obsessing.
Photo by Christopher Chan, and used under a Creative Commons license.
Wow, this blog is GORGEOUS! Why did you decide not to import the whole blogger blog? you wanted to start anew? I don’t think I could do that (leave my stuff in the old blog). In any case, congrats, this space looks awesome. I have to go update my blogroll now! I’m honored to be the first commenter — even though that just means that I am too much of a night owl. :-p
Haha… should have finished reading the post before writing my comment (I read the about section and was just looking around). I don’t think I’ll have problems with images when I move my blog… they’re all my own photos of pictures I got online but saved and then uploaded. I did have problems when I transferred my 365 project blog to wordpress and used a “photoblog” template that eliminated multiple photos in my posts. I have started several blogs in wordpress (I even paid for domain name for one of them), but still have to go and get them going. pure laziness (and… blogging takes tons of time and I want to try to refrain from that a bit). OK, sorry, I talk too much.
Love the new digs!
It sure is purdy, and no clutter at all. Congrats!
Now you need to bring Fang across…
*SMASH*! Enjoy cleaning up those smashed bottles. Seriously, though, awesome!
Welcome to blog ownership.
Very nice – sleek and classy!
Looks good! Welcome to your new home!
Welcome to your new bloggy home! It’s beautiful, and I look forward to the conversations here.
(champagne crashing noise)
Hurrah!
Any excuse is a good excuse for champagne!
Wow!!! Nice digs.
Smash! Looks beautiful!
The new site looks great! Welcome to self-hosted awesomeness.