This essay deals with the redesign of NetWert, which, if you’re reading this sentence, has already taken place and thus renders the essay moot.

There’s a netwert.com redesign that is thisdamnclose to launching but isn’t ready yet. It’s powered by a fine PHP and MySQL back-end that was lovingly prepared for me by my good friend David&#8212six months ago&#8212and I am finally, slowly, aggravatingly debugging it daily.

I need to relaunch this soon, because this design is ripe for replacement, because I know how few of my readership realizes there was a weblog over there [juts chin to the right] for the past six months, because I have taken a shine to not using FTP to post to the site. But I’m not a good enough programmer to repair all my mistakes, so the new site is not yet live.

Until such time occurs as I can get the new guy out the door, I’ve gone ahead and reformatted this page anyway. Weblog entries (without permalinks) are getting thrown in this main column, along with usability essays and journal ditties. That’s the way they’ll be in the redesign, to some extent, although it will make much more sense once the categorized database is in place. For now it’s a bit of a mess, and for that I apologize. And once I’m relaunched, I can spare you and me both from this obnoxious weblogging-about-my-weblog shtick, for which I must also apologize.

In any case, I do update NetWert just about every business day, and this is the page you should continue to check for said updates, and with that, I’m going to get back to my regularly scheduled (and now gloriously disjointed) prattle.

P.S. Yes, I am aware of the alarmingly high amount of adverbs currently on this page (there’s two more!) but that is an issue for another day.