Amanda Rose Zampelli | the blog

new website: amandarosezampelli.com

Hey, guys! I've created a new website at the address amandarosezampelli.com. It's not finished, but the basic function of it is done, and I'd love for you to visit and tell me what you think. NOTE: wait a few seconds before clicking 'Let's party'.

The creation of this website is not an "I've moved" announcement, redirecting you to there from now on. I plan to continue to post at this blog as usual: as a continuous stream of documentation and musings, but the website will be the hub for it all - the place where one can (hopefully) navigate through all that is ♥ARZ♥ which much more ease than they ever could here.

It will also be easier for me to showcase the creative work I've done, and weed through archives and archives of stories and content. THIS is the problem I think bloggers are starting to face. When we first started out, we just wrote. We just posted. Now, years later -- if any of that writing and posting was any good, it seems to be lost in the internet abyss. The purpose of creating my website is to pull some of it back up, and to continue to log projects and posts in a way that they will always be exposed and available for the clicking.  

I think I might have nailed my working formula (talked about here). 

another blog update | geeky blog talk | & what's next

So remember, like, twenty days ago when I was all like, "Hey, I revamped my blog! New Design! Yaddi yaddi yadda!"  Well, literally, the millisecond the new design went live, I thought to myself: NO. I need to fix it. (deep sigh) Such is the life of a picky graphic designer who's type A and can't make a decision about anything.

On a sort-of-related note: Typepad vs. Squarespace. I've been blogging for 5 years now, and I hope you and I spend many more years together at this fun little internet party I call my blog. I started on Blogger, then transitioned to Typepad, but now - 5 years in - a part of me can't deny the positives of Squarespace. I've been thinking about switching over, or keeping up two personal platforms, or making my Squarespace site more of a website, and this site more of a blog. I've been seeing the Squarespace site vs. the 'bloggy' platform debate popping up all over the web here|here and here|here and here|here. 

Needless to say, it's been on my mind. Decisions decisions. In the meantime I'm happier with this new design moving forward. I feel there's going to be a lot of change on the horizon, so as always, I imagine when my world starts to evolve so will how I blog, what I blog, and where I blog. -- ♥ARZ♥

jan 2015 blog revamp

Like I said in my last post, I needed to take care of somethings with the start of the new year, and a revamping of this blog was one of those things on the list. Although I got the general new look & feel of it down, and (most of) the buttons (mostly) in place, it's only about 60% complete. Plenty of buttons still don't lead anywhere, and I'm in the process of coding my archives (yikes!), but I'm confident I'll get it all done before February. Thanks for understanding.

Even with an unfinished design, I'm going to get back to posting. I'm leaving today for Anaheim, CA to attend CHA this upcoming weekend (woo hoo!) and spend some time at the mambi office like back in September so stay tuned for multiple posts on that.

In the meanwhile, you can have a look at this blog's past banners for fun. ♥ Amanda