I meant to launch into a redesign of the website back in January, but for some mysterious reason that never happened. In the coming months however I’ll have a few things I want to publish to the site, so I’ll be instituting some gradual changes to the site as that forthcoming stuff goes up. The focus of the site will be shifting away from a forum for my occasional rants and towards a showcase of my work and a discussion upon it. The rants will still be around somewhere and in some form, but probably not plastered on the front page for days on end.

The first of these changes is the rotating slideshow of images on the front page, highlighting my various projects. As I complete more of my project pages, writing at least one interesting thing about each project, I’ll add them into the rotation as well. I deal with pictures, so perhaps I should be showing them off more often.

More coming soon…

Jesse Gardner from Plasticmind has published a pair of simple-to-follow guides for using Fluid and the iMT plugin to create a very useful desktop interface for posting updates to a Movable Type install.

I tend to use custom fields quite a lot here on Dumbland so for my more detailed entries (reviews, project information) this isn’t much use but for posting simple updates like this one it’s pretty damned excellent.

The rebuild of the site continues, as I bash Movable Type around to see what I can get it to do. I’m able to keep a lot more of the content in the database rather than stored in static templates, which is a plus. I’m now testing some other means of tying all of the content together and creating an altogether more cohesive site.

Other buzzwords here.