zahnster

For months now, I’ve been struggling with the relaunch of my web identity. Since I took my old site down last fall (due to spambots getting the better of my simple php comment system), I have been wavering back and forth with web technologies and goals for the site.

Finally, I got it all figured out. For the last month, I’ve been secretly trying out WordPress, feeling out how I want to go forward with my web identity. There’s been some adjustment, but I feel strong in publicly launching this site today.

There’s a lot differences between this site and the old VWChica.com – the most obvious being the name. Although I’ve used vwchica for years, I felt it was time to move on, and Rauenzahner.com was picked as a replacement for several reasons. First, it’s a derivative of my family’s last name – and my (great great..) grandparents name in the ‘old country’. Also, it’s fun to make my name even more complicated than it has to be.

Besides the name, it would seem that a lot’s the same. However, I would like to focus on keeping the blog updated – optimally I’d love to be able to write one post a day. But this is new territory for me – although I’ve been writing for years, writing intelligent posts about the latest in web (and not sounding like a blowtard) isn’t as easy as you’d think. I’d like to only have to put my foot in my mouth once a week (at most).

So that’s really it… I’m excited about the relaunch, and I’m hoping that it will help continue my drive for all things web as I continue to leave the ‘academic’ world and journey into the professional one.