New WordPress site LIVE: MidByNorthwest.com (yeah, it’s me)

So here I am making all these gloriously bloggy websites for all these bands and artists and consultants and nonprofits… and I don’t even have a blog myself!  Well, besides this mostly business one.  Well, all that changes now, with the launch of my new music/life blog MidByNorthwest:  A Musician’s Transition from Chicago to Seattle.

You can read more about my move to Seattle and this blog project on the site.  From a development perspective, building this site was very interesting for two main reasons:

1)  I was the client – there were both pros and cons to this.

2)  This is the first site I’ve made that is a blog above all else.  Most of the other sites in my portfolio are more like functional hybrids of static page elements and blog elements, or large websites that feature a blog.  This one is really a pure blog.  The only static pages are an “About” page and a “Contact” page – the rest is all about ongoing content.  Designing with this purpose was much different, and made me think bout different elements.  I also started from a very different template, the more streamlined StudioPress Mocha theme, which uses the new and exceptionally powerful Genesis theme framework.

Take a look, pass it along, and keep up with my adventures!