A new beginning
Many months ago I decided to completely re-“design” my site. This decision was made at around the same time I decided to leave my previous employer and move to Banjax. At that time I figured I’d have my new design in place by the time I started my new job. Clearly, I was wrong. A number of things caused the delay, including one abortive design including some CSS I’m proud of and some javascript wizardry. Some of that abandoned design will no doubt appear on some other site of mine in the future.
This version of the site uses ExpressionEngine as a content management system allowing me to move away from Movable Type. The change was made for a number of different reasons, including frustration at the generally static nature of MT, as well as a desire to play with a different system. I’d done some work with ExpressionEngine while still at Front and that had piqued my interest enough to make the move. There are still some little niggles, such as some issues to do with 404 errors, but overall it has been an interesting experience and I’m happy with the move.
The site is by no means finished, but it’s in a much better state that my previous one. There are still some rough edges (in particular with some of the layout) and some sections, such as that for code, are missing, but it’s in a fit enough state to go live.
I’ll be releasing a number of different plugins for various systems over the next few weeks as I tidy the last few remaining details. One of these will be the plugin I wrote for EE to display the relative times in the Tweets and Links entries in the middle column. All of this will come in good time though.
Currently Reading
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson.
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About
Stephen Rushe lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland with his lovely wife Michèle. He spends much of his time writing code for web applications, both for himself and for Banjax Web Design, Belfast, and pondering his lack of design ability. He has a love for most things Apple. He particularly likes Gill Sans at the moment and wishes he could use it well.
Stephen also wonders how well writing in the third person works. He is not convinced.
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