Regular visitors to my site (if there is such a thing), will notice big changes, to the style, layout and hopefully content of this site. This is the 6th redesign of the site I've done, but this time things will be different.
Let me explain. Very time I've played with the site before I've done it using a traditional piece of web editing (dreamwaver) software or by hand. I would come up with a great looking design and then spend all my time tweaking the code to get it to work well across all common browsers or change the page structure and have to go through and change every page. This meant I never really got to putting any new content of the site (the newest thing on here is about 1 year before I started this redesign). Nice looking web sites are...well nice, but the thing that gets visitors back is the content.
Hence I've changed to a template based web editor, the excellent Rapidwaver from Realmac software. Now all of my design problems are handled by the professional web designers that made the template I'm using (magnesium, it comes free with the software!) and the structure is handled where it should be, in software. Okay so I don't get the same level of control over the appearance of the web page and there will be other pages out there that use the same template, but I don't think these are major problems, or even problems at all. Why? Firstly to much control over the page layout, leaves to much room for tinkering ('Oh I just see what that looks like'), which eats up valuable content creation time. Secondly, who cares if my page looks like joe soaps page, the content will be different and that's the important thing to me.
So heres to the new beginning, although it will be some time before this actually gets published, I've got the whole site to import, rearrange and spell check! Also this month I'm working hard on my NaNoWriMo entry, read all about that here.