I’ve thought about the purpose of the site quite a few times, and remedied the lack of posting problem by introducing new sections. But that’s not the way to save a site. It might seem like it, but it’s not. The only thing that will create is a monster of a site with no purpose which is confusing to everyone except me. What I really need to do is start again, redefine what I want the site to do for me, and build it up from there.

I have decided to make the site much less faceless and much more personal. I want to write posts about what I think, not only what I do on a day to day basis. This way, I’ll be more willing to post whatever I want instead of being constrained by the rather tight requisite of a post being useful to the developer community. Essentially what I’m saying is that I’m going to stop taking the site so seriously (in the sense of making it look like a well-respected professional resource and all that nonsense), have a bit of fun and give the site a personality more in-keeping with my own.

The good news

If you’re one of the people who comes here for development tips and tricks, I’ll still be writing them every now and again. That’s the beauty of the new ‘mission statement’, if you will. I’m redefining slightlymore as a place for me to write about things I want to write about in a way that I want to write about them and to the length which I want to write to. That means that in the long run, I will be writing more stuff. And more interesting stuff too.

Also…

Everything which has currently been written will remain here clearly labled as archived. So if you have a particular article which you find useful and refer to, you’ll still be able to get to it and use it.

You won’t see much posting over the next month or so (not much change there, eh?!) as I’m having a bit of a redesign to accommodate the new structure of the site. But rest assured, if you’re an RSS subscriber or follow me on twitter you’ll be the first to know when the new site is ready and live!

Shameless pluggery

In the mean time, if you’re looking for something to read, why not try out OxfordBloggers or Diary of Things? Go on… you know you want to ;)

The aim is simple – to create a place to collect the thoughts and ramblings of Oxfordonians to give an idea of the general flavour of the local part of the blogosphere (man, I hate that word!)

The rules are also very simple. Live in Oxford? Have a blog? Want to be part of a relatively active nerd/geek/blogging community? Answer yes to those and you’re fully qualified to get your blog put on there too :) A rough outline/overviewy kind-of-thing reads something similar to this:

• We’re not going to put advertising on the site, or make money in any way.
• All content is fully attributed to the blog authors.
• All links go directly back to the original blogs.
• We’re not enabling comments – if you want to comment, go to the blog.
• We’re only doing this to get some more people to read blogs that we think deserve it.

Taken from the about page of oxfordbloggers.com

It’s still early days (less than 24 hours from conception to go-live) so excuse us if you manage to break something or you get a splinter from a badly sanded edge.