WordPress and Thesis Expert. First things first but not necessarily in that order. (Topics may shift while in flight)

Every night for about the past year I’ve said to myself, “tonight I’m going to work on my website.”

Yeah right. You all know what I am talking about. It’s the feeling that your looking at 100 miles ahead of you with fumes in the tank. You just can’t find it in you to work on your own website. You stare at others websites all day long. Work long hours trying to solve unique, interesting problems with websites. It can be fun, saturating, and ultimately mentally exhausting.

But what about MY damn website?

• I have this whole website redesigned in my head.
• It’s partially redesigned in Illustrator right now, meaning what little time I’ve had to fiddle around getting what’s in my head onto the screen and into binary.
• I really like it.

I’ve done the above about 15 times in the last 18 months. A jolly good recursive loop.

Well tonight I’ve taken action. I took the first step at actually making a real, substantial change to the website.

For a long, long time I’ve been using Contact Form 7 to create forms on this site so that people could start a dialogue and tell me about their business, projects, and ideas.

Internally that comes to me in a raw format email. I then have to copy/paste everything into Highrise (I use it for contact management). Total pain knowing that there are tools that will automate all this, but I always feel like there is no time.

Wufoo to my emotional rescue.

I got into Wufoo forms and built out a new “intake” form for new projects. Wufoo, through the use of API goodness, integrates into Highrise to eliminate all the data entry I was doing previously. So now I’ve streamlined my intake and made an improvement on the website.

Actual concrete progress on the website.

I have many more things in store for the website and plan to share what I do to the website as I go along.

Some things I imagine will become tutorials along the way—who knows?

Until then…

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