Redesigning my virtual hub!

As some may have noticed, kylesaric.com, the blog itself and my twitter profile have gone under major redesign works!

In my previous blog post I mentioned the design I’ve come up with for my mothers website (which will stay under construction until my exams have finished!). I totally loved the design and have decided to redo my personal website and that led to completely scrapping the old design, html and css files and start from scratch. I learnt a lot on the way and have used various new coding methods including more CSS and some PHP that I never used before. Credit goes to @adammachin for finding the simplepie php extension and helping me use that to get an RSS header on my main site. I won’t bore anyone with the underlying architecture of my website since I will post a portfolio blog post detailing everything at a later stage.

As per usual, one thing led to another and I’ve decided to also redo my twitter page which, of course, was no way near as much work as my personal page! It quite simply involved changing the settings to match colors represented on my personal site and coming up with a .png background image. That then led to changing the one left over piece; my blog. I have yet to still create my own wordpress theme (it will happen one day!) but I still love the simplicity of my current theme (design by Igor Penjivrag) so I decided to simply change most of the CSS to match colors represented on my website!

As mentioned above, look out for a blog post in the near future explaining in a lot more detail some of the underlying architecture of my new website, how things came about and why I chose the current colors.

Mixtapes using Opentape

I’ve just been playing around with Opentape, an “open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.” and I gota say, it’s pretty awesome

My mixtapes will be posted and hosted here, and hopefully about once per month I’ll change things round and post my recently listened to songs and generally just things I’m into currently.

Project365 up again :)

Thanks to Adam Machin. He suggested to have a look at Google’s cache of /365/ and it had found a copy of it. It wasn’t the final one, but at least all the layout of divs and the edited Flickr code was recovered

Will be uploading other images soon.

Project365 down :(

I use 2 main pieces of software when working on my website currently, Transmit and Coda. I had a tiny bit of a problem with Coda and it had deleted my /365/index.html file (hence why when currently viewing the page is just white. I didn’t save any backups either

I’ll re-write the page in the comming days. I’ll still continue with project365 but will post them in batch when I get all the code organised. From now on, I’ll always back my root directory of my server on a local drive, just incase something like this happens again.

Hello World (again)

This is my true first post. And it’s also the first of January. I watched the last Epic Fu of the year and decided to start Project 365. And why not start my blog at the same time! I’ll be posting random thoughts, reviews, previews of any kind of media, games and will also be posting my photo of the day here. Stick along for a wonderful 2009!

Happy new year!

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