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Redesign

Hello,

I have decided that it is time to replace my mspaint layout with something better. I have started to redesign the site to be better flowing, easier on the eye and easier to use+navigate. This is all available to view [url=/indexnew.php]over here[/url]. I would appreciate any criticism from you guys as I change this design. I think it will probably be released on the main page within a week or two.

Keep checking back for more updates

Groomi

Downtime – Apologies

Yeah, tonight I had about an hours downtime. This was caused by my idiocy and hunger

I reinstalled MySQL today and in doing so, Debian removed ProFTPD. I changed the MySQL password in my header files and left Dreamweaver to do the uploading. I came back an hour later after having a bite to eat and watching some TV to find this and all of my other MySQL dependant sites offline.

I have since reinstalled ProFTPD and apologise to anyone who tried to access this site in the last hour and couldn't :wave:

XFN

Hey,

This is a very small update to let you know that my website is now using XFN for linking to friends.

XFNâ„¢ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags.

I am currently using XFN for my Friends' links on the left-hand-side of the page:

<a href="http://youreadmyblog.info" rel="friend met">Craig Bryson</a>
<a href="http://www.mattjewell.com" rel="contact">Matt Jewell</a>
<a href="http://www.enaresh.com" rel="acquaintance">eNaresh</a>

It's quite a cute little system where you put keywords in the rel="" section of an [b]a[/b] tag to represent how you know the person. In Craig's link we have the keywords 'friend' and 'met' because he is both a friend and someone who I have met in person.

Although entirely pointless, I think it is a nice little system and could even some day have a purpose if everyone were to use it. I am displaying the little 88x31 button below and I invite all you blog owners to click it and see what it is all about .

[url=http://gmpg.org/xfn][img]/inc/img/xfn-btn.gif[/img][/url]

Don't forget I am always looking for link trades too, so if you would like one, feel free to leave a comment here .

A quick layout update

I just quickly added more articles on the main page as I thought it worked better than 2.

Comments??

SJGmusic progress

Well, the more observant of you will have noticed on my [url=http://www.groomi.net]Main Website[/url] there is mention of a website-in-creation called SJGmusic.com. Well I started to make a design and think of ideas for what to do with it to make it cutting-edge and modern-looking.

I haven't attempted to design a website since the internet was littered with a big network of sites copying one another and kids (myself included) trading links with 88x31px GIFs and big pixel font headers with every effect photoshop had thrown at it.

Obviously, I was in no good position to start making a website for what should some day be my livelihood, so off I trotted making a banner. I was toying with copying off of everyone else, and I came up with a number of ideas like not using images, using CSS etc. Eventually I fired up Photoshop and this is what I came up with:

[img]inc/img/misc/sjgmusic.png[/img]

This probably won't stick for very long and the colour is subject to change but I was after you guys' constructive criticism on how it is, and what to do to make it... better?

Thanks
Stephen