Potentially Taking Down DanReno.com for Development

Hello all!

So as I unintentionally made a false promise to be more active on my site, I have been contemplating taking down the current site you see here and redeveloping the site from concept to design.  I will still use WordPress as my platform most likely, but it just seems that I need to come up with a better idea for my site than what I currently use it for (which is almost nothing lately).

Originally I got the site so I could A) have my domain name registered to me and B) have a blog I could use to interact in the blogosphere and contribute to the web.  Well as I stated in my last post, there have been a LOT of changes in my life recently.  My interests in the oh-so-wonderfully tech/geeky world has just sky rocketed.  Especially when it comes to the web and programming.

I have recently enrolled in O’Reilly School of Technology’s PHP/SQL Programming Certification.  It has opened my eyes to a new world of possibility for me and I have been enjoying it quite a bit.  Especially when you combine that with my recent switch to the Ubuntu operating system.  Those two things combined have been the catalyst for my recent extreme interest in the tech world.  And the more I learn about it, the more I want to be a part of it.

With all of that being said, I also have other passions for which I would like to use my website.  The geeky stuff can be talked about, sure.  But I plan to use most of my knowledge gained from all of that to further enhance my website.  So apart from techie blurbs and rants, I would ultimately like to have a site where I can express all of my interests.  I just have to figure out how I’m going to do that.  I’ve thrown around the idea of having different websites for all of my respective interests, but I’m just not sure that’s realistic.  Especially considering the fact that I can’t even keep up with my own site at the moment.

At any rate, I am going to travel down one of two paths with this site:

1. Take the site down and put up a temporary splash page while making the site what I want it to be
2. Keep the site up and stay active with it while I continually enhance the site’s features

My only fear in traveling down the second path is that the same thing happens again.  I publish a post saying that I will become more active only to become stagnant once again.  But on the flipside, the first path will probably take longer to actually accomplish.

So I have to make a decision.  If I have ANY readers at ALL (and I highly doubt that I do just yet), feel free to post a comment with your opinion.  Either way, I would like to have a decision made sooner than later.  I plan to act on my choice this weekend, June 13-14 2009.

Cheers!