Progress Update #1

A few weeks ago I posted about a theme update I was working on for this site, its still going strong – I’ve started phasing into the development stage. The design is still being finalised, but I like to keep things fresh – and work on another small portion of the project (a JavaScript slider using jQuery) will start to need my attention. I haven’t done much for JavaScript and jQuery before, and I really want to improve on that – so its the part of the project which can feasibly be extracted from WP and worked on externally – and it doesn’t need elements of my design to be produced; I can just use place-holder imagery.

In update #2 I’ll cover the finalised design and post that up, though it’ll probably be another week for that. I’m expecting update #3 to cover some of the JavaScript and CSS, update #4 will likely show some WordPress development stages. On that note, WordPress 3.2 is due to shake up the development process – so I’m being cautious as 3.2 is slated for the end of this month.

Finally, I’m considering releasing CarbonWP as a free theme – I’d consider it fairly basic and certainly with room for improvement, but I think its a nice little showcase of how far I’ve come.

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Getting Started: HTML5

Now my studies are out of the way for a few months and I feel like I learned a lot with my last project, I’m going to undertake the task of redesigning this site. Its my hope that it’ll be something I can remain relatively proud of for some time to come. In addition to being a redesign, something much cleaner and favourable in style over this current site… it will also feature HTML5, I will be using the HTML5Shiv script to enable support in earlier versions of Internet Explorer.

Its a task I’ve looked forward to for a while, after producing CarbonWP (which can be seen on my personal blog); which I’m thinking of redoing eventually, it was really my largest project in terms of things learnt and practices put in place. In turn I will go about writing articles when I do that – after this site redesign is done. I’ll put up sneak peaks when the design stage is done, though I tend to mix and mash the design and coding stages a little when I start to feel happy with the former.

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