decry.org was an irreverent, self-referential webzine that hit the ether in 2002, had a good run, fizzled out, and then just kind of sat there. The witty, self-depricating posts were lost in the poorly rendered archive and the front page was blank, devoid of any information about the site or useful wayfinding pointers. Truly, I had failed in my job as a Decry Pimp (my listed occupation on social networking sites).
Taking advantage of the weeklong summer vacation that just passed, I decided to don my pimp suit and get to work on decry.org. This post outlines the steps I went through, exporting from MovableType to WordPress, sketching concept ideas, building mock-ups in Photoshop, and finally creating a WordPress theme in XHTML 1.0 strict. Which is to say, this post is more for me than for you. Kind of like my tattoos… » Continue Reading…