Kinney Road. The road of creation, and of change.

Bedlamfarm.com is precious to me, and I consider the website to have two partners – the gifted people at Mannix Marketing, who designed and maintained it from the beginning, the people who read it every day – you. The designers at Mannix are helping me upgrade the site and better reflect my media as a whole – the Journal, Facebook, the Photos, Videos, Blogs I Love, Fullmoonfiberart, and my writing life, books and book tours. Bedlamfarm.com is different than it was five years ago, and every step of the way, Mannix has guided me to the next level. They are also there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to help out when there’s trouble. I can’t say enough about how I much I enjoy working with them, or how responsible they are for the remarkable growth of the blog.

So this is the first draft of the new design. We are already changing some things. Dropping the “All Things Jon Katz” line at the top, shrinking the size of the grey and blue graphic that borders the site, enlarging the main “Bedlam Farm Journal” photo and posting so that each days’ photo and comment has more impact. I love the interior design, the boxes across the top, the general graphic look of the Farm Journal. Mannix designers and I have a slight disagreement about how many posts to show at once. I’d say one or two so that they wouldn’t all be small and of equal size. I think the photos have a lot of impact – I hear this on the book tour, but we are very close to agreement, and we usually split it in the middle, and  I think the general idea is brilliant. I hope to see a second  draft this week, and I will also share it with you. Here is a link to the first draft, the new site proposal. Come and see. I’m very excited. This focuses all of my blog and website in one place and brings the blog clearly into the present, and to some extent, the future. The blog is not a supplement to my work, it is, in many ways, my work.