I launched scottedelman.com on February 2, 2002, a little more than nine years ago. I felt it was way past time for me to have a personal presence online, as opposed to my presence as editor of Science Fiction Weekly, which has over the years morphed into Blastr. I’m no Web designer, so it looked pretty basic even then, with snippets of html taken from various sites I liked and cobbled together into something that while admittedly clunky was passable for my needs.

But what was passable nearly a decade ago soon looked primitive … and then embarrassingly dated.

For at least two years, I’ve been telling myself I needed to redesign the site, but whenever I started noodling around with it, I’d eventually be forced to admit that a) with everything else going on in my life, I didn’t really have the time to do it myself, and b) no matter how much I thought I had the ability, both technical and artistic, to design a functional and aesthetically pleasing site, I didn’t. I needed help!

And so I finally threw myself on the mercy of Jeremy Tolbert at Clockpunk Studios, who’d designed many of my friends’ sites, and now that he’s worked his magic, the all-new look of scottedelman.com goes live today.

I look forward to hearing what you guys think!