It’s about that time of year again where I am pondering a site redesign. The difference though between this year and previous years is that I want to integrate all the meida & design material I have worked on in the past that wouldn’t appear on my businesses website.

Another reason is that I have upgraded to WordPress 2.7 (it doesn’t break the skin of course), so it would be nice to design something a bit more modern and change the focus to advertising my media production skills.

Of course a part of the redesign would be the Twitter updates, as mentioned yesterday. I would also be moving from the SiFR headers back to plain text (partly to reduce load times, and partly to create something that looks great on any web browser, no matter if it’s an iPhone/iPod touch or IE).

Depending on the time I have, it may appear in a month to 4 months time at least.

Unlike Tim Malone, I don’t need to tick the Remember Me checkbox (I’m too lazy too. I know it sounds crazy).

Still, it’s been a while since I have actually posted some form of a reasonable blog post as I have been busy doing various things.

For those that don’t know, I am doing volunteer work at 1WAY FM, ensuring that programs go out as they should, editing programs and doing web and graphic design work for them. This does take a bit of my time up.

I also recently relaunched kjwdesign’s website (although I need to change a bit of code so that I don’t have an issue with the blog showing on the front page). The new design is fresher, gives me a bit more control on what I can put up on the site and includes a blog where I can easily add news and updates on the business. I also had to fix the contact form as the web-host somehow broke the PHP configuration for the SMTP server address.

Other than that, I am job hunting at the moment, looking at ways and options to start a production business, still working in retail, and still slowly working on actually getting my showcase on the web.

I also graduated from CIT a couple of weeks ago.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been involved in the production of graphics for the Raiders TV show as well as graphics for the Raiders player profile videos, as part of my CIT course. I have also been involved with the editing of the first Raiders player profile for Alan Tongue.

To see Raiders TV, visit www.raiders.com.au/tv

The blog has been updated, so if you have any issues, please post in the comments.

All I can say is that I like the latest version (although I wonder how to get the Gravatar’s actually showing (See my first photo of the week post’s comments)). 

Also, the folks at WordPress have updated the WordPress.org website to have a similar style to the Wordpress 2.5 admin interface. Well done to the folks at WordPress and Happy Cog for the work done on the design (Even if it will take a bit of getting used to).

If you are a visitor to the actual site or you click on the links from the RSS feed, you would have noticed that a new site design is up.

I have now removed the recent entries tool from the front page and have reverted back to the standard style for blog index pages.

If you have any problems, please let me know via the comments.