For all those that have been regular visitors of Southbound Home over the past four months or so, you probably think I’m suffering from multiple personalities. The fourth different design for the site in as many months, this iteration of the site might very well be called the ‘What Should Have Been The Last Time’ redesign. I was looking at the site, and thinking about the kinds of things that I wanted to write about in the next few months, and the design that I’d put in place for the CSS Reboot just didn’t seem to fit. I was proud of the work that I’d done on the site, and I thought it looked quite good, but it didn’t serve my purpose well, and it didn’t fit my needs, and, above all, it didn’t give me the chance to make minor modifications as time passed to fit my many mood swings.

This design, I feel, accomplishes everything that I wanted the first time that I redesigned. The site is, so far as I can tell, completely bulletproof, easily modifiable, and, most importantly, more of a reflection of me and who I am. It’s simple, strong, and straight forward. Of course, if you’ve been exploring the site at all, you know that there are still some small changes that I still need to make, some pixels still to be pushed, but I wanted to roll this bad boy out in time for football season.

I haven’t had a lot of time lately to write, and I’ve felt extremely bad about that. I love to write on this site, it provides me with a much needed outlet for thoughts ideas and feelings that may not have a place anywhere else. But web design, and work, and life in general have taken up a lot of my time lately, and, as far as life as I know it now is concerned, I hope that’s always the case. But still, I wanted to write. I wanted to write about football, and how excited I am about the upcoming football season, and about the feeling of renewal that every fall brings. I’ll be heading down to Oxford for the season opener against Memphis on Labor Day weekend, and the girl is coming with me. The idea of exposing her to her very first SEC game, and her very first Ole Miss game to boot, makes me very excited, and the girl is really excited about it too, way more than I thought she might be, even if she can’t find anything to wear.

So for the near future, I’ll continue to put time in on some web design projects that I’ve undertaken, I’ll be working almost non-stop, and I’ll be living my life in the the free moments that I have. But I’ll write. I promise to write. I’ll write about football, and I’ll write about life, and the feeling of renewal that each fall brings, and the girl. I’ll most definitely be writing about the girl.