Over the past few months I’ve been working on a new little app. Yes a few months is a long time to spend on a ‘little’ app but I’ve been working on it by myself and only in my spare time, also my designing skills definitely aren’t on par with my development skills so designing stuff takes me ages.
If you’ve been on this site before you might have noticed that it looks quite different now as I’ve just finished adding a new theme for the blog.
I was half way though a new theme that looked totally different to this one but then decided to go for a really clean, minimal look to the site so that it’s easier to browse and read content which I hope is what most people come here for anyway.
The new theme uses the Thematic WordPress Framework as it’s base which meant I could get the site ready in super quick time!
For my first post of this year (a bit late, I know) I thought I would go over some of my favorite iPhone applications. Maybe I’ll mention one you haven’t heard of that could turn out to be useful. Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments if you think there is an app I’ve missed. These are just listed in the order I have on my phone, I normally try to put the ones I use most first but you might find you would have them in a completely different order!
My new portfolio site is finally finished and online, you can see the new site here: GotWebsites. I spent quite a lot of time working on speeding the site up and I’m pleased that the site now ranks 96/100 for the homepage and 99/100 for subpages in YSlow. When I get some free time I intend to write an article on using the information YSlow gives you to make your site faster. If you’re new to YSlow there is a good introduction to it on Nettuts.
Now that my portfolio is out of the way I’m working on the new version of this site, unfortunately me being predominantly a developer means it takes me ages to design something that even resembles something good so you might have to make do with this theme for a little bit longer.
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been all this time, I’ve been working on my new portfolio website which I’m hoping to get online this weekend. Once I’ve done that I’ll be focusing on redoing this site aswell. That coupled with client work has meant not much time for anything else (like writing new posts for this site!).
Any free time I’ve had has been spent either on my xbox or on Forrst. Forrst is a pretty awesome, invite only site for designers and developers to connect, show their work and get help. Anyway, I’ve got a spare invite so if someone thinks Forrst is something they’d like (and would use) leave a comment with a link to some of your work and I’ll send it over.