Can’t think of a better named flavor of Mountain Dew to drink in an electric car. I’d buy Voltage again and score it an 8 out of 10.
Tag: MtDewVirus
Mtn Dew LiveWire
Not good enough to have again.
Mom Has the Diet Coke Virus
Where do you think I get my Mountain Dew addiction?
The New MtDewVirus
Here it is. The new and hopefully improved mtdewvirus.com.
I started on this design over a year ago and hadn’t touched it in over a year until Friday night. I put a lot of hours into it over the weekend and a few more tonight fixing errors after updating the live site. Setting up a test environment locally is great, but it’s hard to test for everything.
As of right now, most things should be working. If something looks out of place or funky, leave a comment on this post.
I plan to write up some posts on how I did a few things around the site and to point out some things. If you’d like to know how I implemented a particular feature, ask in the comments.
What do you think of the new layout and design?
Forward
I’m pretty happy with the way the design turned out. I call it Forward because of it’s relation to my life right now. We can usually tell what is over our heads and what is under our feet, but we don’t always know what’s right in front of us. For instance, just look at the header and footer images. You might not be able to tell, but both images are cut from a photo I took in Philadelphia last year. I purposely didn’t use any of the middle section. What you find in the content of this site is always changing. It’s the unknown. This new design also comes at a point in my life where I hope to be moving forward very soon. My “master life plan” is finally coming into view.
I still have a lot to do with the site and other things related to the release of WordPress 1.5. The next item on my to-do list is to convert all of the plugins I’ve created so that they work with WP 1.5. This shouldn’t take too much time. I also need to prepare MDV-Archive for release. What’s this? Just browse through the archives and you’ll see they don’t function like the archives on most WP sites. It really shouldn’t be too difficult to get this released, so it may come before the plugins. I basically just need to edit a few lines and offer the files for download.
On the home front, here at MtDewVirus, I’m going to put up an extensive about section. It’ll be complete with information about yours truly, the history of MtDewVirus, an explanation of how things are accomplished in Forward, and an FAQ. If you have any questions about Forward, the site, or anything else please post a comment and I’ll be sure to take it into consideration.
One thing that may change with Forward is the font used for the image headlines (not the font in the header image). I’m not sure it fits in. Let me know what you think.
I should also mention that Forward was built on top of the default theme (Kubrick) that now ships with WP 1.5, but is highly customized.
All New
As you may have noticed, I’m in the process of rolling out the new MtDewVirus design. Please excuse the small piles of dust here and there as I clean a few things up. Also note that I haven’t even started to work on the Photos section of the site. Much more to come in the […]
Expectations
I’ve been trying to think of the future of MtDewVirus.com. What do I want from it? Why do I have the site? A redesign has been in the plans and is getting closer to being started. I promise. Help me out though… What have you come to expect from MtDewVirus? Why do you visit? Thanks […]
Dew Traffic
While looking through the logs here at MtDewVirus, I’ve found that my traffic has dropped off considerably. I guess it shouldn’t be suprising since I haven’t been reading many other blogs, haven’t been commenting, and I don’t link to many other blogs. My referrer logs are jammed with bogus sites and sites related to poker. […]
Change Of Scenery
MtDewVirus realy needs a change of scenery…I just haven’t wanted to spend the time on a new design though. WordPress 1.5 has entered the gamma stage, so it shouldn’t be long before the final release. Maybe that’s when I’ll work on some changes around here since there are some new features that I’ve planned to […]
MtDewVirus Is Back
I’m sorry for the interruption in my sites over the last few days. I’ll take full blame since I didn’t plan the server move out very well at all. Things kind of hit and there wasn’t much I could do at that point. Over the next few days I’ll make sure that everything is still working properly, but if you find something that isn’t, please let me know.
I think this was my longest streak without posting since I’ve been running WordPress.
Update: The offer still stands if anyone needs a place to host their site. I promise I won’t charge you an arm and a leg!
Nick Momrik 