New design evolving!
For a while now I’ve been meaning to reimagine and redesign the http://www.lewislacook.org website. In particular, I needed a form that was easy to update, good for blogging, friendly for my visitors and amenable to Search Engine Marketing.
To that end I’ve chosen to use the immensely popular WordPress blogging software as my platform, as opposed to the previous incarnation of this site, which used Joomla. While Joomla is quite a robust and flexible system, I found that it had a lot of features I didn’t neccessarily need or want for this website.
This New Media Poetry website will focus exclusively on, well, New Media Poetry–my own work, of course (and those of you who wandered into this site looking for my new work won’t be disappointed–as the site gels I’ll be getting posts up about the old work soon enough), but also some reviews of other new media poems on the web, some thoughts on the technologies involved in creating these works, and anything else I want to throw in. This site aims to not only showcase my own work, but to serve as a periodic exploration of what new media poetry exists on the web, it’s direction, polarities, and practitioners.
To that end, enjoy the spiffy new design (handcrafted using the default WordPress theme, some custom markup, and the JQuery JavaScript library) and keep coming back for more news, reviews, and opinion on those poems that don’t quite fit on the page…
Tags: New Media Poetics, Uncategorized