New look for bigredradish - coming soon!
Well, it’s been a long time since I last posted anything , but there has been a lot going on in the background!
The first change is this little fellow - Huw, born in October last year and it is amazing how something so small can take up so much of your spare time.
The second change is the upcoming makeover for the site. It has been a while in the making but I have been taking time to get things just right.
The new site is built using Wordpress as the ‘back-end’, unlike the old site, which is/was a bit of a ‘Franken-site’ of static pages and a Worpress blog for the ‘notes’ section. It worked fine like that but was I pulling my recent posts into the static pages using an RSS parser which was not ideal. So, I have learned how to use Wordpress properly and the current release (2.3) is actually more flexible as a CMS than I thought. I think I’ll probably move to Expression Engine eventually as it offers more flexibility, but as I already had a Wordpress based blog I set myself the challenge of making it work for me.
The main change for the new site (and indeed the way I work in general) is how it is constructed. After reading the chapter by Mark Boulton in the book Web Standards Creativity and Richard Rutter’s 24 ways article I have become fascinated by typographic design and grid-based layouts. The new site is centered around a six column grid and a 21px vertical rhythm - I’ll write more about this in later posts.
So, look out for the new site and let me know what you think.