{"id":5693,"date":"2016-04-01T22:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:18:00","slug":"under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally beginning to take the plunge and tinkering with this little corner of the internet, so expect things to fluctuate wildly around here until I get my bearings.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it would be more elegant to do this all at once behind the scenes and then publish, but I don&#8217;t roll like that and you&#8217;ll see it changing in real time, warts and all!\u00a0 Won&#8217;t that be fun?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov24-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5395\" src=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov24-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nov24-1\" width=\"397\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov24-1.jpg 596w, http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov24-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nov24-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>#mfw doing web design shit. I don&#8217;t know why, but it makes me IRRATIONALLY angry.\u00a0 Hulk smash!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, I switched to the default layout for two reasons.\u00a0 First, being super boring will hopefully motivate me to get this project done sooner than later.\u00a0 Second, I just wanted to start from zero.\u00a0 Nuke it from orbit.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s the only way.<\/p>\n<p>Second, with a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresintriathlon.com\/aitblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zliten<\/a> and the Internet&#8217;s help, I was able to finally, after 8 years, get rid of my ugly ugly main flash page and load the blog directly from the main adjustedreality.com site.\u00a0 Effing HALLELUJAH!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with my progress for the moment, but it&#8217;s definitely not done.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not basic functionality and white and drab green around here, no sireee!\u00a0 I may not do all these things in order, but it&#8217;s good to have goals, so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I&#8217;d like to get all of that good ol&#8217; social media and community stuff going.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actual links to me on twitter, instagram, and dailymile. (DONE)<\/li>\n<li>Ways to share my <del>rambles<\/del> brilliant content on all the said social medias.<\/li>\n<li>A way to subscribe to my blog if you can&#8217;t get enough of my <del>brilliant content<\/del> rambles.<\/li>\n<li>A site search (happily appeared on the default template, but I didn&#8217;t have one before and want to make sure it stays). (DONE)<\/li>\n<li>An official &#8220;contact me&#8221; form that actually goes somewhere I check.\u00a0 Y&#8217;know, in case one of the three people that read this want to say hi. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After that, I plan to update the template to a more mobile-friendly wordpress format.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try WordPress&#8217;s 2016 official one, and see if I can do what I want with that, but while *I* am not a huge phone blog reader, I am definitely in the minority.\u00a0 And I know I hate unfriendly sites when I DO click on a link somewhere on zee mobile. (EDIT: DONE)<\/p>\n<p>Then I want to do some cosmetic shit. This is the stuff I actually have fun with, so I should definitely save it for last so I don&#8217;t stop before doing everything else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pretty up the headers with rotating pictures, or at least some static pictures that represent me better than a grainy vacation picture from 2011. (IN PROGRESS)<\/li>\n<li>Figure out a color scheme I like instead of whatever exists. (DONE &#8211; I actually like the default.\u00a0 For reals.)<\/li>\n<li>Find a way to sort my archives into years, and only display months for the current year (8 years of blog = lots of archives).<\/li>\n<li>Add a related posts section to the bottom of posts.\u00a0 I really like this on other blogs and I&#8217;ll have to look for a plugin to do it for mine.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll also probably scrub and polish all the pages to be relevant (Bio, Races, etc).\u00a0 They are all a year or five out of date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, I have a little soul searching to do.\u00a0 Adjusted Reality has been my playspace since I&#8217;ve been out of college and wayyyy before I started doing this biking, swimming, or even running thing (hell, before I even started losing weight from stay puff&#8217;t marshmallow gal), and I haven&#8217;t ever really found my message.\u00a0 &#8220;Becoming more awesome one day at a time&#8221; popped into my head so I went with it temporarily, but I&#8217;m not quite sure it fits right.\u00a0 Who am I?\u00a0 What does my little corner of the internet want to say to the world?<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Also, once I decide this, also decide if I want to change the title image.<\/p>\n<p>If I can get there, I&#8217;ll be happy with my progress and feel *comfortable* in my own skin here for a while!\u00a0 Stick around to see how it develops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions:<\/strong> anything else you think a good personal website\/blog needs?\u00a0 Also, if you can think of a tagline for me, please submit it below.\u00a0 If I use it you get&#8230; 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