I like your ideas and you bring up a good point about Tumblr possibly (and most likely) going out of style in a few years. I was thinking of setting up a self-hosted WordPress blog for myself, that will serve as the main portal for all my various projects, experence, examples of work, blog, thoughts, etc. I was thinking of just linking to the WordPress blog/Tumblr. Now I'm starting to think that I may as well just publish all of the writing on a Louder Words section of my website. Also, how long did it take you to set up your website? I really dig the style, and the source code looks fairly simple/clean/manageable. Any recommendations for that process?
Oh, that thing? It's grown, slowly. It uses jekyll on the back-end, which is an interesting/masochistic way to make a website. The main process was: put something on the internet, add content, work out what sucks about the layout, fix that, repeat. There's a lot to be said for shipping early, then refining the product. I think I've been doing that process for six to eight months? It's been on-and-off, whenever I feel the need to move something around or push something out of the way. (There is actually a slight redesign in the works that I need to get around to final testing + uploading at some point). The layout itself is based on my looking at websites, going "that looks pretty/striking/better than my website", bookmarking it, and then going back later and working out what makes it tick before replicating it on mine.