Allchorn Design

I’ve been hard at work on the buggy template today. I think it’s coming along nicely and I’ve launched an open source alpha v0.02 this evening. I’ve written a brief (to be expanded upon) readme file explaining how things work, but as time goes on, I will improve it and the template itself.

I still want to add some nice navigation elements, lists, image styling etc. Possibly integrate lightboxing and look into some other semantic, non intrusive javascript that is realistic to use in as wide a variety of systems as possible. I’ll probably look more into jquery, but I do want to keep things as simple as as scalable as possible.

The more it goes in one direction, the more difficult it is to backtrack. I guess this will be an evolutionary process.

In my role as a web design consultant, I often need to do a fair amount of research into a specific client’s needs. In that research, I tend to come across a lot of really cool technology and parts of it that enhance a website in really useful ways.

As it seems Wordpress is the talk of the web publishing world right now, I’m busy with a lot of Wordpress related projects. I had to looks for some specific extensions for the system called Plugins. and in so doing, I came across some nifty addons that I’d like to share. Some I will use on client sites, some on my own, and others I’ll just keep a note of for future reference.