Change Of Address
Well, the day has finally come.
As of next month it will be two years since I started blogging on Disdainful-Soul.net. It’s an odd sensation to be sitting here now and writing this post. But I’ve finally stopped putting it off and putting fingers to keys.
Some of you may have already noticed this, but I have started to use my full name on most things, and now it has reached the logical conclusion: Catherine-Haines.com. It will be a combination of D-S.net and Working Title, and hopefully when I find me an agent who gets me a publishing deal, I can have a nice author website all set up (with a nice pre-built fanbase to go with it :P). I’ll be renewing the domain names for both when the time comes, so I have a whole year to work out what to do with them while the content stays up. It’ll also mean that all the stuff on the subdomains will be fine too. My bank balance… not so much. Oh well.
So please, come and check out Catherine-Haines.com, with its shiny new layout I am very proud of. I’d be tickled pink if you stopped by. 
Apparently I Can Always Use Another Blog
As if maintaining both Disdainful-Soul.net and Working Title wasn’t enough, I have gone and started a third blog. Having noticed that several of my recent blogs on D-S.net were about books, and there were several on Working Title as well I decided to join the leagues of book bloggers and start my own.
So from now on all my book reviews (and book-related posts) can be found at On The Nightstand. My three latest reviews are for The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman), Uglies (Scott Westerfeld) and The Tricksters (Margaret Mahy).
If you like books and are looking for reviews and suggestion please stop by at On The Nightstand.
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Redesigning a Redesign
I am working on a new layout for Working Title as I have recently become more and more unhappy with it. Having submitted both sites to Rev.iew.me I have received plenty of feedback on how to improve them, and my designing skills.
As you may have noticed, Disdainful-Soul.net has already had a complete redesign, thankfully removing the colourscheme I have been stuck on for at least three versions now.
When it comes to Working Title, some elements will be the same but with slight changes, and other things will be the same. Overall, the idea keeps with the post it notes and colours and the spiral notebook of the old theme and simply builds upon and enhances that idea. Now it will definitely be a notebook sitting on a desk, with random sheets of paper sticking out and sitting all over the wooden desk.
I’m enjoying the challenge at making something look a little 3D (which is new for me, heh) and so far I think it is working.
EDIT: Or you could just check out the new layout for yourself.
Disdainful-Soul.net
D-S.net is the personal blog of Catherine, a 22 year old girl from New Zealand with a love of modern tech and ancient history and with aspirations to become a published author. 
