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The product of a sleepless night

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For whatever reason, I was completely unable to sleep last night so I thought rather than waste time I'd get on with something useful and fix the mess that was my blog.  Along with fixing the theming (how the website looks), I also added a couple of bits; accessible from the nav on the right.

New bits

  • Music - I thought it was about time I gave my music a bit more exposure.  You can download my album and a few other tunes I've written from this page.
  • Pics - Nothing special, just a slideshow from my Flickr stream.  It'll do for now, until I get my photo blog properly integrated.
  • Location - Where I am, where I've been and where I might be going... Actually, not the last bit.  In fact, as I write this, the rather snazzy plugin I've used here isn't actually working.  Epic fail.
  • About me - Just a short blurb about my humble self.

What I've fixed

  • Blogroll - The blogroll is back!  Giving props to my favourite blogs.  They are there because I like and reccommend them.  Check them out.
  • Profile pic - It disappeared when I broke the site.  Now it is back and looking awesome, if I may say so myself.
  • Links - Links to some of my other properties and profiles on the web.  I'm fully stalkable!
  • Colours - Everything went orange and brown for a bit... That was nasty!
  • Disclaimer - My blog, my thoughts, my opinions, nobody elses.  Got it?

That's about it.  If you think it sucks, please let me know so that I can do absolutely nothing about it.  :D

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8 Websites You Need To Stop Building

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The Oatmeal is an awesome webcomic.  Please visit them and show them love.

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I Hate The New Facebook Interface!

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Actually, I don't hate it at all. That's just what everyone else is saying.

Believe it or not, the Facebook interface designers base their decisions mostly on two factors. Those being: What the users want and what will help drive more revenue. Unfortunately, every now and then something you use is going to get dropped. It's probably been dropped because not many people use that feature or because it doesn't fit in with something they have planned for future development. They do know who clicks what and how often they are clicking it...

Imagine if they did a U-turn every time the user base said "we don't like it, change it back". Well, most of you probably wouldn't be using it now because it would still be a closed network for students. It wouldn't have any apps or games. It wouldn't integrate with other social networks.

Change is good. Change is necessary for evolution and improvement.

You will get used to it.

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The Crap Website Awards

The Crap Website Awards are coming!

You know what it's like, you're stumbling around the interwebs looking for awesomes and suddenly you find yourself staring at the kind of breathtaking crapness you just can't keep to yourself;  Backgrounds that make it impossible to read the content, big colourful animations that just don't fit and designs that...  well...  just have no design sense at all.

These websites need to be immortalised and praised for their shoddy construction and ugliness.  That's why we (well, Jon actually) came up with The Crap Website Awards.

All you have to do to submit a website and give it a chance to win is share it on Twitter using the #crapwebsiteawards hashtag.

As you'll see from the images here, the standard is VERY low.

To see the current submissions, click here.

I haven't set a date for the awards yet or decided what categories there should be because I'm crap too.  This is all about the crapness so as far as I'm concerned, it's all good.  Get submitting and comment here with category ideas.  If there's enough craplove I might make things all big and official like.

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I just did this

After a few different drafts we finally settled for this landing page design which is now live at: http://theheartofwalton.com 

It isn't my favourite of the designs I submitted but it is OK and will do the job.  I think it is better looking than the two sites it points to!

Before you ask, I'm responsible for the landing page ONLY!  The rest is someone else's work.

Heartdraft

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