How many times can I use the word “refresh” in the title before it becomes too cumbersome? Well, I think we’re just about alright with 3.
That time has come around again, as it inevitably does, once in a blue moon…. the website (refresh) rebirth.
Years of Neglect
This website has looked this way since early 2011, but back then it was a full-blown Wordpress site. The grand plan was to write some stuff of varying flavours here. Over three years I wrote nine posts, which is an output I’m pretty happy with. Problem is, after 2013 it would appear I stopped.
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I don’t really do new years resolutions, but I do recall in early 2013 saying to myself that this would be the year I actually make some money from the internet.
For as long as I’ve done this web development thing I’ve been working on projects that were set to earn millions. But then, isn’t everything? The sad fact, repeated over and over the past 10 years is that, no, the majority of stuff you work on amounts to nothing.
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Over recent years I’ve come across the need to design and build a website generally under tight time and budget constraints. With this in mind I went looking for a framework to build off of to save myself from the many pitfalls of starting from scratch. Enter Bootstrap.
It’s probably been a while since I built anything using it, but after I came across a website which sells themes for Bootstrap, I decided to brush of my theming skills (if I had any) and “throw” together a theme or two and see if they’d earn me some Red Bull money.
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After finishing the refresh of my website I found myself with a crisp empty sidebar. No problem, I’ll find something useful to put in there over time, or then I’ll just leave it empty. But wait—why don’t I throw an AppSumo badge there? After all, I find some of their products interesting and Noah and Neville make the best videos ever, their energy is infectious.
Hold on. That looks crap!
A few clicks and a copy-paste later I’ve got my sumo stamped badge in the sidebar. Imagine my dissapointment at the crappy treatment of the logo/border at the bottom. Looks really substandard on a coloured background.
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Just over a year ago I launched version 5 of my website on the world, it was my first blog driven version. At the time I thought it would be good to place barriers to publication beyond simply not pressing the publish button.
To cut a long story short, that was a bad idea.
One year on I’ve only managed to post 2 things but managed to collect 15 draft versions of posts doing nothing more than gathering dust.
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