Life flows on, and time slips away from us despite our best intentions. The advantage of a delayed launch is the flexibility to deal with large life events as well as minor technical ones, without disturbing anyone’s expectations. My father’s death last month after a long, slow decline in health brought sadness, but also joy in celebrating a life well-lived. He made mistakes in life, as we all do, but he did his best with what was given him, failures and successes more or less balanced. May we all say as much toward the end of our lives.
On the technical side, the new theme is working as well as I hoped it would, despite some initial hiccups. It does almost everything the old theme did, which means a lot of things its designer never intended. Jeff Goins conceived of it as a stripped down, clear and clean platform for writers. He wanted words to be the focus, but I want to make full use of graphics as well. The new theme allows me to take a lot of liberties with the visual elements without needing any special coding skills.
If you are also blogging, you will know that the Gutenberg editor from WordPress hovers on the threshold of the website universe. Fortunately, Pair Networks, my hosting company, is keeping the existing (classic) editor available for those who want to use it. Other hosting companies are doing the same. It’s my plan to continue using the classic editor until I’m sure most of the kinks are ironed out from Gutenberg. Based on its progress to date, I suspect that will take a while.