I’m finally updating my site and blog. Hopefully it will be a better experience for you as well as for me! All I ask is for a bit of patience as I figure things out (as I am migrating 15 years of content and trying a few designs out during the month of August. My goal is to have the site up and running with both a new design a loads of reorganized and new content by Sept 1st, but as I am building it myself, this may even take more time. Im sure it will look fine for most visitors, but expect glitches and errors for a bit until I sort things out. 15 years of content needed to be re-edited, pictures resized (not all, just some) and search words entered. Hopefully it will all go smoothly and we’ll all end up with a much better site that is searchable and be more useful.
Until then, be safe, stay safe and have a super summer!
Hi I came here from Margaret Roach’s website, so it’s my first time. I love what I am seeing right now: clean spare look, superb photography, white background (which showcases the photographs and content), lack of advertising. I have bookmarked your site and will certainly come back to it.
Welcome Julide! Thanks for the nice comments. Do know that this site has just been re-designed (by me) two weeks ago as I just moved my 16 year old blog from Google Blogger to WordPress, so I am still experiencing a big learning curve! That said, I appreciate your comments about the clean design – with 30 years under my belt as a creative director and graphic designer (at Hasbro) I take great pride in both design and typography. As an artist, while I would never call myself a photographer, It seems that being raised by artists and my creative design experience affected my photo skills, so thank you. I really don’t fuss with my photography much, (a bit more with my books) but I do ruthlessly edit my photos taking hundreds often to just choose the perfect one, so some work does go into it. Also, thank you for ordering my book!
Hey Matt, it looks like this is your latest post? I guess you’re super busy pulling the new design together. My 13th blogaversary came and went on October 7. Hard to believe we’ve both written this long isn’t it? Anyway, hope all is well.~~Dee
Hi Dee, Happy Blogiversary! I think that this is my 14th or 15 blogaversary. Geesh, I know, right? At least we are still doing it, right? Hope all is well with you and your family! matt.
Great site redesign.
Hi Matt:
Yay the typeface! Making Things Grow revamp? How I miss Thalassa–her books and her magic PBS set! So funny how your visual rocketed me back to a simpler time. Thanks for ALL you do! Traci
Thanks Traci! Now I just need to try making more posts!