Fred Seibert's Blog

We got this note from a reader, and it’s pretty indicative of how we’re feeling about our blog too:

“…the Frederator empire of blogs, websites, awards, videos and podcasts is FAR to complex for me to navigate with any degree of success. So, a little help?”

We’ve had the same inkling for the past year so our crack development team is on it right now. In fact, I was waiting for an update on progress and deadlines this week. I’ll let you know when I know what’s up.

For those interested in a little background, when we moved the studio blog off of Blogger almost two years ago it was because we were determined to start a “community” blog where the contributors would be the talented filmmakers we work with every day (expanding eventually to include friends of the family). At the time there was no platform capable of intergrating the 40+ cartoons bloggers we were antcipating, and no easy way to search them and give each blogger a discreet URL. So, our friends at Davidville sprung into action nad invented it from scratch.

Longtime readers will recall that about a year in we experienced extreme confusion, with stuff not working and us being frustrated. It turned out that David had built Frederator blogs on a brand new, then rarely used plaform called ‘Rails’ and the internet host couldn’t really support it. That’s how fresh the whole thing was.

And that was all before the complications that Channel Frederator wrought.

Since then blogging platforms have caught up with Davidville’s innovations, allowing for tagging categories, multiple contributors, and lots of other cool stuff. We’re building our blogs on WordPress software, the same stuff many of you have your blogs on. It’s easy to use and the open source community is constantly innovating to make it better. We like innovation, we like ease of use. We think you will too.

Thanks for your patience, as always.