Well, it seems a new year is here, and so this year i will try to post a bit more often. Finally i am going to get around to starting a few sites, and in doing so, i am trying to get into design.
iDevCore:
Well as most of you know, this is my portfolio site, not much on it at the moment, but that will change. I am giving it a face lift as well as moving my blog over to it. Its going to be split into 3 sections, Work, Play and Blog. Un-unique yes, but a nice way to split the site. I have designed a page for the splash, and can be seen here.
The other sections are as below:
XhtmlCode:
This site will go ahead, i have already drafted up a plan for its layout and content structure, more info will be available soon, including a design when i get to it. I dont want to give too much away early.
TurnkeyFind:
Not sure how successful this one will be, and im sure that there are plenty of turnkey based ’search’ sites out there. Basically a database will listings of free and paid turnkey scripts that are available, with premium links for ‘paying linkers’.
TalkPHPBB:
Still waiting for the final release of PHPBB3, hopefully its not too far away :)
More news on sites soon :)
Well, it seems that the last post was a month ago, so i thought i better chuck something up.
Updates
Well, i have a new theme up, just for a change, i quite like the colours in it.
Bought a couple of Sitepoint books, a CSS one and an Ajax one, they should be here in a week or so.
Also purchased a new 80GB 2.5″ External USB Harddrive, its pretty sweet.
Sites
Well only one :) Finally got round to getting my portfolio site up. Check it out at Shaun-Walker.com
Other Stuff
Well it seems that the Microsoft Zune will be coming out November the 14th, and at the price of US$249.99. For those who dont know what the M$ Zune is, check out Zuneinfo.com
Well, will post later if i get round to it
I’m not one to rave on about a subject, but in this case i will. What is with the whole web 2.0 thing? I mean like the only difference is that the sites uses a ‘cleaner’ layout, and may have a bit of AJAX chucked in, and uses XHTML code. Apart from that its all the same. I see some sites go a bit crazy on the images for every button, its not helping those who are still stuck with the old 56k modem. And these new terms like ‘flickr’ and sites that have an extra character like ‘pagerank2′. Although if you are obsessed with the Web 2.0 age, visit web2.0foru.ms and share you love for it.
Browsers
Why can’t anyone agree on a standard? They have W3C to base it off, so why cant they just get along? IE would have to be the worst one ive come across when dealing with compatablility for code. You get it all working nice and fine in both FireFox and Opera, and you go to check it out in IE, and some list is off by a few pixels.
Graphics Design
Yet another render. This one is using Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and a small bit of Apopysis. The crazy swirls came out like that by using a Max plugin called ‘greeble’, the water drop type things in the corners is all Photoshop, using different effects.
Click on the image for a better resolution picture.
Domain for Sale
I am currently selling ImgHost.net on TalkFreelance, the thread can be seen here.
Other things
TalkPHPBB - Not sure how sucessful it will be, but it will be a good challenge. I’ve never started a forum before so I reackon i will learn alot about it. I’m hoping to open it just after PHPBB3 final release is out. Design and domain is ready, just needs uploading and fixing the forums up.
TurnkeyFind - Yet another interesting one. Basicully just a directory/search engine for TurnKey scripts. Will have some ad places for Turnkey script providers, and maybe one Google Adsense ad. I recently saw on (tf) someone selling a site similar to my idea. Hopefully mine goes just as good if not better. No design as of yet, waiting for some money to come in from the last Wordpress theme coding.
TutDen - Yes still working on it. Just had it moved to another server, but the version they copied over is an older one. So thats going to require reuploading some files. But all in all, its nearly done.
Back up
Yeah the site was down for a bit while it was changed over to a different server. At least i didnt lose any data this time.
Wordpress Theming
Still been doing some wordpress coding, latest piece is xHtml 1.1 and can be seen here.
I can do wordpress coding for US$50. Later on the price will go up.
SkinWP
I’m going to start working with SkinWP, a new company specializing in wordpress theme desings and coding.
TutDen
Nearly complete, after all this time :p
More updates later on…
Yes, Microsoft has developed a program to making blogging that one step easier. Windows Live Writer which is only in beta allows you to post, choose the categories, has a spell checker, lets you upload images, use MSN maps and more…
It also works with most blog systems such as:
- WordPress
- TypePad
- Blogger
- LiveJournal
- Movable Type
- and a few others…
Anyway, im actually using it to post this blog now. So check it out. Link