Jeff Smith

Rebooted

This redesign has been a long time coming. CSS Reboot was just the thing I needed to get off my ass and get started on it. Although, I didn’t really begin this design in earnest until this past friday afternoon, and just completed it moments ago.

Not Quite Finished

Although the redesign may look completed, there are still a lot of things that I want to add to the design. Not to mention the fact that my portfolio got ignored during the redesign process. I’ve stripped down my use of plugins throughtout the site, but as I make revisions to the design, a few might creep back. Down the road, my portfolio will be redesigned, and possibly this blog could be integrated back into the portfolio site, to give both of my sites a more consistent feel. You can tell by the use of colors that I had fully intended for this to happen this time ‘round, but again, that time thing got the best of me.

But I Thought You Were Switching To Symphony

All in due time…I had planned to switch to Symphony but the development team’s timeline has changed somewhat, and version 1.0 is not quite ready to go. I could have used the beta version of Symphony, but my knowledge of Wordpress is a lot stronger, and with the time constraints I’ve been working under for this design, I needed to go with the more familiar product for the time being. Symphony is shaping up to be one excellent product, and I can’t wait to begin to use it. I encourage everyone who hasn’t taken a look at the demo site, to pay 21 Degrees a visit and give Symphony a test drive.

Thanks

Just wanted to say a little thank you to Steve P. Sharpe for all of his testing, troubleshooting, and words of encouragement this morning. Also, kudos to him for the work he did on his SPS-Archives plugin. The plugin isn’t released just yet, but he was gracious enough to allow me to use it for my archives section.

Finally Done

Thank goodness this site is finally done, now I can begin to refine all of the things that I ignored during the redesign. They may not be too obvious to most, but there are a few things bugging me that need to be seen to. Expect to see more frequent posting from me now that this design is completed. I’ve got a lot of posts sitting in “Drafts” that will be finished off and posted here before too long. The first one in the pipe is a little review on Tiger since I picked up my copy at Compusmart yesterday.