However, at the moment I’m bogged down with the development of Citable so it won’t be an overnight transition, but I am constantly planning the features and design of the new site with the hope of making a much more interesting and regularly updated site.

It just leaves one big question as to what I should use to power the site. I can’t decide whether to use a blog-engine like WordPress, which would need a lot of tweaking in order to make it look how I would like but would be ready to go instantly, or whether to build my own system, which could easily be changed to work how I want it to but would take quite a while to get finished (as I found out with Citable).

Whichever system I decide to use it’ll be a while before the “new” Metal Toast goes online as other projects desperately need finishing first.

I bought a new domain at the end of September so all my spare time has been devoted to that, leaving all my other sites at the road side whilst I get it finished. However it’s coming along so it shouldn’t be too long before I have my own Tumblelog up and running.

To add to all this I now can’t stand the theme I designed for our socio-political blog which I’m due to launch with some friends. So I guess that’s back on the list as well then!

Topping it all off is the fact that the latest version of Movable type has gone from a repetitive (but usable) templating engine to one that is less repetitive but painfully complex to understand, hence why my blog still uses the default theme.