Welcome to the new site!

Welcome to the new site, God I’m nervous… Will you all like it? Will you hate it? Will you use the features I’ve been working hard to put in place… I don’t know, but there’s a real heart wrenching story for me, in the fact that I loved the old site, because it was me, It was my design, It was MY site. All of it. And being sat here writing this post a few days before the site goes live… Well I have to say I’m looking at my old site, wishing it could stay, but it just isn’t realistic.

As hard as I have worked on the new site, It still pains me to see the old one gone…. Right now It’s 3am, and I’m writing up the post ready for the big move (yes I can do that now and set this thing to automatically post up when I’m not here) .

I’ve worked very hard on making sure this site is near enough what you all wanted it to be, and me. You can still see the clouds in the background image, just like in the old site. And despite a few additional features and colour changes, It’s not a huge difference to the old one.  I still want this site to be all me. Hopefully all those survey results better work out

We have a host of new features, me being able to post from my phone, a better gallery system, a more efficient site, RSS feeds for those who want a mailing list but don’t want to be on a mailing list, twitter linkins (this site will twitter whenever I post an update), comments (with spam protection I might add). There’s even a download section which hasn’t gone live yet, but it’s there, ready to be tweaked. Though I may only enable it for registered users. Categories and tags, better stats tracking, there’s just so much that I’ve been able to accomplish with the site. Even getting it optimized so that mobile viewers have their own dedicated site (though the gallery doesn’t yet work on it… hopefully that will be fixed soon, but you now have the option to comment and post up your thoughts and views! so go right ahead!

Still.. welcome to the site… I hope you enjoy using it as much as I have had creating it (minus the frustration and hair pulling)