Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

In Silence, Reverent

It has been a few months since I qui­etly released the redesign of this site, and due to per­sonal com­mit­ments, new busi­ness prospects, and the menagerie of orga­ni­za­tions I’m involved in that require my time (my life seems to be an exer­cise in burn­ing the prover­bial can­dle), I made nary a men­tion of it, nor did I pro­duce even the slight­est write-up about my rea­sons for the redesign, insight into selected por­tions of the process, or any­thing else of inter­est. I still want to do that, but not just yet, there are other things brew­ing that should be noted first.

Faster than a speed­ing weblog

More impor­tant than the redesign of Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter is the brand new Web­graph site — a long time com­ing (some of you know exactly how long it has been), webgraph.com was soft-launched just over a month ago, and we’ve been qui­etly test­ing it since then, mak­ing small tweaks here and there, adding a few CSS workarounds for some unco­op­er­a­tive older browsers, and reword­ing the text in a few places. Stan­dards zealots be warned: not every page val­i­dates. You will note the absence of any “click-here-to-validate” links, and that’s on pur­pose (not sim­ply because of the two non-validating pages).

It’s not per­fect, but I don’t believe for a minute that I will ever be 100% sat­is­fied with any self-promotional work, espe­cially work that takes so long to com­plete (design pref­er­ences change over time, so my brain is already work­ing on webgraph.com v2.0, which of course involves a com­plete redesign and would prob­a­bly ren­der much of the cur­rent con­tent obsolete…sigh). I’m incred­i­bly happy with the end result, espe­cially hav­ing a port­fo­lio to which prospec­tive cus­tomers can be directed.

Drop by, take a look around, then let us know what you think, we’re always interested.

Whis­tle while you work

You may have noticed the new Recent­Work sec­tion of Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter as well. This will be updated from time to time, and fea­ture projects I’ve worked on recently, both for Web­graph as well as some per­sonal projects.

Cur­rent happenings

Work has picked up slightly in recent months, and hope­fully that pat­tern will con­tinue. The new site, as well as some pro­mo­tional mail­ings we’re prepar­ing for exist­ing and prospec­tive clients, should help a great deal in that area as we enter into 2005. We’re always open to dis­cussing new projects, so don’t hes­i­tate to get in touch.

On the per­sonal front, Rounders has just fin­ished record­ing our debut CD (we’re fin­ish­ing the mix­ing process right now), with sam­ple tracks com­ing to the web site in early Jan­u­ary. We’re going to have a busy show sea­son start­ing late Jan­u­ary, trav­el­ing quite a bit within Florida as well as a few per­for­mances already sched­uled around the coun­try, with more requests com­ing in every week. A cap­pella is becom­ing more pop­u­lar every day, and I can’t wait for more expo­sure of the style (if you watch the Late Late Show on CBS, you saw the Alley Cats, a pop­u­lar group from Cal­i­for­nia per­form­ing as the house band about a month ago; this Thursday’s Jane Pauley Show will fea­ture the 2003 Inter­na­tional Bar­ber­shop Quar­tet Cham­pi­ons, Power Play, as well as pop­u­lar con­tem­po­rary a cap­pella pow­er­house Rockapella).

Oh, and if you have a few thou­sand dol­lars lying around, and want to give me a christ­mas gift, I’d really like a 30″ Apple Dis­play (though I’ll be happy with the 23″). Or you could just pick some­thing up from my Ama­zon Wishlist…

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Monday, December 20th, 2004.

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