New Website, Same Redpants
The new Redpants website is now live!! I wanted to have this new website launched over a year ago but… no… no, that did not happen. But now it’s here, and that’s what matters.
Much of the content from my old website has carried over but I’ve heavily revised a lot of it. More information, better clarity, hopefully fewer typos. I also completely changed the structure of the website with the intention of making it easier to explore and find relevant information. I’ve also greatly expanded some of the content. For example, the Information Pages are each several times longer than the old ones they replaced.
The broken links issue from my old website was because I knew I was going to be launching a brand new website, so I didn’t bother to maintain and update links with the old one. This was a particular issue with links to products in my Online Store after I replaced it with a completely different platform - none of the links worked at that point! Of course, none of that wasn’t supposed to last long, but again… I’m over a year late on this, so…. my bad. But all of the links should work on the new website. I know I reference at least a few web pages that don’t yet exist on the new site, so bear with me while I continue to add back in the missing content.
One addition to the new website is the Support Page. This feels really odd to me but I’ve been encouraged by enough of my customers to set something up where people could donate to support my work beyond just buying parts, so I finally did it. It takes a lot of money to pay for everything that goes into Redpants so any contributions are appreciated. I can’t depend on YouTube for it - the revenue from that will never cover the camera or other equipment I use to make those videos, let alone the time that goes into them lol. So yeah, I finally caved in and put a donation page up.
As far as this new website is concerned, I’m completely redoing several years’ worth of work so it’s very slow going. Some of the functionality, links, and webpages aren’t working (or existing) yet but I’m working on it daily so it should get filled out pretty soon.
Oh and last thing… I was featured in an article on Car and Driver! It was based on an interview they did with me several months ago so I didn’t do any of the writing or editing, but it was pretty awesome to get a shout-out like that!