# Blog Rebranding and Redesign

Published: 2011-05-23
Tags: meta
URL: https://codebrief.com/2011/05/blog-rebranding-and-redesign/

Several events have converged, resulting in a new blog design and a new brand. <a href="http://www.slicehost.com">Slicehost</a> is <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/05/rackspace-shutting-down-sliceh.php">shutting down</a>, forcing me to finally migrate over to <a href="http://www.linode.com/?r=e0eddc168073d6e0fc67a44ee35b0858076f93f2">linode</a> (which kicks ass by the way, should have moved over a long time ago) and I have finally acted on the realization that my personal brand needs to be stronger. Rather than simply copying my blog over, I used this opportunity to rebrand from my last name (hempton.com) to codebrief.com and to give it a custom design.


Having formerly been a Math and CS major in college, I have always had a penchant for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J87JTM/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=yoanme0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399353&creativeASIN=B001J87JTM">green engineering pads</a>, on which this theme is based. This theme is also open source and is up on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/ghempton/CodePad">here</a>. Enjoy! (P.S. I really wish more designers would use version control.)