Okay, not exactly new skillz. I’m just proud of myself because last night I figured out how to add a sidebar to WordPress that only shows up on static pages. I’ve been trying to get that to work for weeks. (And now I have to go back and implement it on the resume page.)

I also updated my design portfolio with the site I implemented the sidebar on: raven.fluidartist.com. Some readers have already seen today — jewelry and such. I should have updated that site with WordPress a long time ago, but I was having trouble letting go of the design. I was actually quite proud of it – my first time implementing lists as header navigation using CSS.  True this was over two years ago now, but I’m still proud.  I could have used a bare-bones theme and made it look almost exactly like the site I designed, but I had to admit that it would look better with a new design that looked a bit more 2.0.

It may not escape your notice that my portfolio is not dynamic. I don’t see a reason to shove yet another wordpress install on my server for that — it’s just a couple of pages. Plus, I am proud of that design, too! Plus., I like that there’s some evidence of my roots in “old school” web design.  Remember when most pages were plain-old HTML? I even had a Blogger blog at one point that I had publishing to my own domain and a custom template. I had mad skillz back in the day.

And I still do.