I plan to update this page frequently

I mentioned I’d been work on Blanc, my site’s new design now for about a month so I thought it was time to keep a page with it’s current status. Im still planning on giving away my current site’s WordPress theme styles when Blanc is done. AND another little surprise is planned but not entirely confirmed yet, I’ll see how I go.

I’m quite excited about this design but I want to make it right. I have also gone down some certain design routes with it then had an idea for an alternative way of doing it and so to some degree scrapped the last design. Most of the last month or so has also been purely on the home page, trying different layouts and colours, making sure I still liked it the next morning, pressing the delete key alot, not and seeking ideas. There was no use of Photoshop (CS3 beta o_O) for layouts - just an idea in my head and diving into CSSEdit 2 for CSS, TextWrangler for code and Cyberduck for ftp. Only in the last 1-2 weeks have I endeavoured to tackle any more pages and the majority of those 1-2 weeks was the single post page. The Stickies widget in Dashboard has been a useful place to save little to-dos so I remember my ideas.

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I’m a bit slow with this, but David Mitchell and Robert Webb of Peep Show fame (That Mitchell and Webb Sound is great also, but That Mitchell and Webb Look is not so good) are the front men for the new Apple UK Get a Mac ads.

These ads are essentially re-workings of the original US ads with a more British ‘bent’ and they work pretty well in my opinion. David Mitchell makes a great PC but I’m not so sure about Robert Webb as the Mac, maybe he needs a revised wardrobe - more casual and ‘slacker’. I look forward to some Peep Show style “what I’m really thinking of you” ads - but I doubt they’ll do them.