Bruner Blog

Fearing the worst for Coney Island’s inimitable Astroland Amusement Park, which may or may not open again next year after being sold for a mere $30 million to greedy real estate developers who plan to tear it down, I decided to go alone to the place tonight for a photo excursion. Holy shit, is the Cyclone fun!

I am hereby soliciting proposals for a technical overhaul and redesign of Bruner Blog. These are the changes I would like to make to it:

• Move and activate entire Bruner.net site contents and Bruner Blog 5-year archive to a new web host. I’m partial to GoDaddy, but open to ideas.




• Implement new blog structure in WordPress instead of MovableType. (Or, if you really want to make a case for sticking with MT, give it a try, but I’m not much interested in other platforms.)




• Redesign Bruner Blog with fresh look.




• Optimize the blog design for search engines (e.g., use title as archive URL, etc.)

I can afford to pay what I would consider reasonable for this project, but please also bear in mind this blog is relatively high profile: it still gets a few hundred visits a day even after three months of no new posts; it’s got a lot of in-bound lnks, and B-List blogger status on Blogebrity.com. I’ll happily put a link to your site crediting you with the design in my blog template.

To respond with a proposal, please send an email to rickbruner at gmail dot com, and put “Bruner Blog RFP” in the subject line. Show me examples of your previous blog designs and give me a sense of your expertise in this area. I don’t want to deal with beginners, no offense. I want someone who has real blog setup and design chops. Quote me a price and add any other comments or questions you have there.

Thanks!

Oh. Hello again.

Regular readers have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while. Just over three months, to be precise. Ooops. Sorry. I’m back! At least I’m back enough to say: stay tuned, I’m preparing a redesign of Bruner Blog and relaunch in a few weeks.

It’s been a fun summer. Lots to catch up about. There were technical and clerical errors involved in my hiatus, but I guess I also just needed a break. Been blogging semi-regularly for five years (April 22, 2002), and I don’t remember ever taking a break of three months before.

I’m about to publish another post calling for a Bruner Blog redesign Request for Proposals. After I get that sorted out, I’ll be blogging more regularly again, I promise. I’ll try to publish more pictures, and I’m also expecting to jump on the UkeTube bandwagon and upload some of my own performances. I’ve pretty well got “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” “Dancing Cheek to Cheek,” “Rubber Ducky” and other crowd pleasers down tight. Plus I have a backlog of pictures to share, stories to tell, etc.

Looking forward to being back in action soon. Meanwhile, “I’ll see you in my dreams…”