The beauty of change
“Someday, a change is gonna come. Oh, yes it will.” Legendary singer Sam Cooke penned this song in 1963 in response to the social changes wrought by the growing civil rights movement. My motives are nowhere near as high-minded or purposeful as his. I just figured it was long past time for me to drastically change my professional face to the world.
I’ve owned kmboykin.com for many years and have managed its content on a purely page-by-page basis. Manually creating and updating HTML and style sheets gets to be old. It’s also something that I often let languish once I got the job. That’s because its original purpose was more like that of an electronic calling card and not an information pop-up store or a rest stop on your way to some other social media engagement.
The new structure completes the separation of content from display and function by taking advantage of easily customizable themes and widgets. No more of the mish-mash roadmap of changing technologies. No more directly creating and tweaking style sheets or making sure my code validates. This is not to say that a more than passing knowledge of what’s behind the pretty “anyone-can-blog” face isn’t advantageous. It pays to know when and how to back up your files. Or how the Internet, servers and protocols work. Or, even at a basic level, why your pictures aren’t showing up when you know they were there just yesterday. Um…did you accidentally change your site structure or links? Sometimes, it’s the little things.
Enjoy poking around the place. If you like something you see or feel the need to comment, don’t be shy about giving me a shout out. I’m open to intelligent, mutually beneficial exchanges any time.
