Jes.Gs

Well, obviously it is if you’re able to read this. This is all a part of my “grand” plan to merge my blog @ Dumpster-fairy.com and my portfolio @ Jes.Gs into one. The blog hasn’t been updated since last summer, and I need to keep my portfolio updated. I also want to use the blog for things other than just tutorials but I already have a Livejournal account for that — a possibility would be using a plugin like Live+Press or creating my own version of Live+Press to do two-way posts, meaning if I post something to Livejournal, it’ll also be cross-posted to the blog. Other things I have to do before the site can come out of beta:

1. Need a proper favicon. Took care of that.
2. Keep an eye on the performance of the caching script for my Last.fm and Twitter accounts — Last.fm user-name is ardathksheyna, if anyone is curious.
   1. Eventually, the Last.fm module will be expanded to a plugin. One of my ideas is to have a page that displays 10-20 of my most popular tracks. (Looking at my top tracks, Just Stop by Disturbed is currently the ranking champion.)
   2. Twitter module: no ideas yet, just keeping an eye on how the regex handles multiple links; multiple mentions and I may have to throw something for retweets in there, eventually.
3. Create sidebars for the Portfolio (Works) section, and change the sidebar for the single posts template.
4. Up in the air: Resume & Contact forms.
5. Up in the air: Add Gravatar to posts. (Privately, I wish Livejournal supported Gravatar :\)
6. Search template needs to be styled.
7. Portfolio: Child-posts should show up in taxonomy listings.

So what happens to Dumpster-fairy.com once the merge is complete? I’m thinking that for a few months, I’ll have Dumpster-fairy.com do a 301 to Jes.Gs when I move the site to the main url. After that, I’m not sure what happens. Dumpster-fairy.com is mine for another two years — I believe that it doesn’t expire until November of 2012. So, there are three possibilities: sell it, give it away or, allow it to expire.