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My last business website revision was 2016, so it was way past time. I started building a new one in 2025, finished it summerish, then couldn't easily migrate it. Stymied, I let it sit and cool off for about seven months. I broke it out again sometime in February (it all runs together, see "What the Fork?"  for my opinion on February), but there's always a debugging period, so I'm still tweaking.

One thing on my list is to go through my 2k+ photos in my media library, eliminate photos I don't need, duplicates (and triplicates... and there are a lot of them), and label the rest for easier searching. That way, when I need a photo of a kid playing a cello, I can search for "cello" instead of "20230821_170847-scaled". I did a bunch of labeling, but that feels like a neverending job.

...now, don't yell at me over "neverending", dumb spellchecker. *pokes at red squiggles* Everyone knows it's not "The Never-Ending Story".

 

So, in addition to hours and hours of media library cleanup (punctuated by texting ancient photos to friends, moms, and grown-ass kids who used to be adorable five-year-olds), I also updated the "Music Lab" and "Teachers & Staff" pages of my biz website:

                   Music Technology & Learning Lab  
                   Teachers & Staff  

I was on such a roll that I also started working on my author site. I basically just tossed another Wordpress site into a subdirectory on my domain. I went to the media library to look for some photos I could get a headshot out of.... aha! That's how I got sucked into the media library cleanup project.

Stupid ADHD.

Anyway, the author site currently looks like this: http://michelletuesday.com/author

Give it time. It will soon enough look as glorious as the homepage (http://michelletuesday.com).

Progress against goals (and a new "Build author website" goal) are below. But first, enjoy 11-year-old Phillip's Music Lab poster. This kid's dad is a professional marketing guru, so Phillip enjoys  creating marketing materials for me (see also, the homepage.)

Webbily,
Michelle

 

Goals for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26
Work Goals
Review work tasks list 3x per week
Payroll - Caught up on approvals as of yesterday. I'll need to run (process) payroll on March 1st.
Website - v.2025 is still a work in progress. Today, I:
                    Cleaned out all the test databases and files from design trial & error.
                    Tweaked the blog page formatting. Storm Machine may notice.
                    Worked on the media library.
                    Updated the "Music Lab" and "Teachers & Staff" pages.

Writing Goals
Create official author website
          -  I'm having a hard time finding photos of my without a guitar in hand and mic in front of my face.
Min 30 min/week on current novel - TBD
One short story for "The Bradbury"  - TBD and I still owe for last week.
One themed blog post - TBD
One review - I'm ahead by three weeks (2/23,3/2,3/9).
Current assignment for "26 Paychecks "  - caught up til our new assignment this Thursday.
Current assignment for "The Sprawling Ink Society"  - I plan to post another assignment Sunday (which is March 1st.)