Compromise?

After many redesign-no-don’t thoughts about my website —

which, y’know, takes my mind off such dire thoughts as “I will never find a job in my field WAAAA!” –

I hit upon an evil scheme. I have yet to discover the hideous consequence embedded in this scheme, but I’m sure there is one. Something along the lines of breaking every link on the site, perhaps. Stranding half the stories in limbo, perhaps. Losing some file or deleting a mysterious directory that hasn’t been changed since 2003 only to find that it was the one critical piece of the whole works.

Anyway, the evil scheme? Install Textpattern and tweak the thing until it looks the way I want and contains all the fic and stuff, then add a few redirects and wait for error messages to pop up, then add more redirects, until people are retrained on how to find the fic. I can update where I know there are recs or links (seriously, there are maybe six of these places, and they show up in my web stats). I don’t have a lot of files, and could probably keep the old static pages up as well, just in case. At least for a while.

Why would I do all this? Why not? I keep threatening to learn more about web design and whatnot. I keep thinking I’ll redesign the static pages. Part of me says ‘what’s wrong with them? they’re portable and they’re uncomplicated.’ But if there’s one thing I’m really good at, it’s complicating things. And anything’s portable.