I just got my bill in from my web host which means that in exactly 1 month it’ll be a year since I got this site up and running. Just while I’m on the subject, if you’re looking for a cheap, reliable web host then I highly recommend Big Wet Fish. They’re not flawless and I have minor issue from time to time but they’re customer support is superb and I’ve never had to wait more than 1 hour for a reply from their support team. Usually the reply comes with the problem fixed. And problems are few and far between. They’re about 15 quid a year (including domain) and they’re based in good old NI so you’re supporting good, local produce.

So, as I was perusing my site it’s become obvious that it’s time for a change. I’ve learned a whole heap of web design stuff in the last year so there’s loads of new little tricks that I’m dying to put into practice, not to mention I’m getting tired of this design now. Probably the most drastic change I’m going to make is I will add a CMS to the site to allow me to easily manage the entire site’s content without FTP access and an HTML editor. I’ve been reading a few books and I’m fairly certain I’ll use Wordpress as the CMS. Believe it or not, it’s not only possible to use Wordpress as a CMS - it’s actually highly robust and does a far better job than loads of other open source alternatives.

Don’t get too excited (like you would…), because change takes time. I have the whole development process to go through followed by new content to write and then the actually design implementation. Ideally, I’d like to get it done for around Christmas time but given that I work about 60 hours per week and have loads of other things to occupy my time outside of that, it could take longer. But I can assure you the new site will be awesome.

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