I managed to sneak away from the whirlwind of other tasks on my desk for a few hours today to work on continuing the big switch-over from my old site to this one. I got some big progress made and now all the major pieces are now in place. There's still some minor things that need to be tweaked and I still have to go down to the courthouse and make the name change official, but we're almost there. It will be so nice to be officially Ink Plant and to get out of this state of limbo.

The biggest change (other than swapping out logos, etc.) that I made in the switch was to separate the site into 4 categories: Company, Network, Blog, and Code:

• Company - This was the entire site before. It consists of the stuff you'd expect to see from a web development company: a portfolio, information about us, a sales pitch, etc. This is where I want to attract new development clients and also to provide a resource area (with invoices and such) for my current clients.
• Network - Right now, this section simply lists and links to the various sites that Ink Plant maintains as a publisher. In the future, I want to build this out to include more information for potential advertisers on the Network.
• Blog - You're looking at it. I'm going to try very hard to keep posting up here regularly. I'd love to use this to start discussions regarding interesting aspects of the web development business.
• Code - This is going to be a repository of code snippets that I've put together. I definitely have some work to do there still because there aren't enough code chunks to be useful yet and the design looks kinda lame. But, that's probably going to be a project for later...

Well, I hope you like the new site. If you have any comments/suggestions, send them my way. Have a good night everyone.

I've been trying to juggle a million different projects lately and haven't had much of a chance to write up here. I wish I could just pause time for a month or two and get caught up on this gigantic checklist of tasks that I want to get done on my sites.

One of the bigger tasks on the list is switching all the Lantenengo Industries stuff over to Ink Plant (I'm going to be officially changing my business name in the near future for branding reasons). Tonight, I got a decent-sized chunk of that switch taken care of: I closed down my old blog (redirecting it to here, of course) and pulled out the code snippets that I had published there, creating the new Code section of this site.

I also published a new code snippet that generates the PHP to display a MySQL table automatically. I've probably written this out by hand a couple hundred times, so it'll be nice to finally have this little shortcut. Hopefully some of you will benefit from it too. Enjoy!

Welcome to the new Ink Plant Blog.  As you can tell, this is still a work in progress.  I've been re-thinking the way that I wanted my business blog to be setup, and wanted to get started on writing it even though I don't have the time right now to make the design pretty, etc.  So, forgive that please.

I lost motivation a bit on my old blog (NYC Web Design) and haven't posted anything there since June.  I think a big part of that was because I was approaching the concept in the wrong way.  Instead of actually blogging, I was attempting to write tutorials, code snippets, etc. and the whole process became a chore.  So, with this fresh new blog, I am going to have a new approach -- I am going to write this as though it was my business' diary.  No, we're not going to talk about crushes and fabulous outfits, but we are going to talk about what's happening in the day-to-day life of Ink Plant.

I'm still going to try to do some of that tutorial/article/how-to-guide writing for SEO purposes, but I am going to do so on "real" pages rather than a blog because I think that's a more suitable medium.  And, when I publish new pages there, I'll simply write a little announcement here.  So, if you sucscribe, you'll still be kept up to date with all those developments.

Another thing I found was that my posts were way too long and I'd put off writing because I didn't have time to put together a masterpiece.  No more of that either.  These are going to be shorter and to the point because you're probably just as busy as I am and have better things to do than read long, drawn-out blog posts.  So, with that in mind, I'll call this good.