17 December 2007
It's been pointed out to me that I hadn't updated the front page of D4D™ in nearly three years, so I figured I'd best give it a little thrash, just to keep people happy.
Recently I've been thinking about a re-organisation of the site, which would include either this page becoming the page for the blog and the main part of D4D™, or just redirecting this page off to the blog anyway. And for the moment I suspect that's what'll happen early in the new year. (I may just have some time to do it - not that it needs much, but well, I figure it'd be good to give people some warning).
D4D™ has been in the same state and colourscheme now for the best part of five years all told. Initially it didn't have the blog part at all, although that changed in the first six months. And back over Christmas 2004 I spent some time making some of the site smarter, changing it all to be stylesheets and PHP. But since then the structure really hasn't changed at all.
Some of that is - I admit - sheer laziness. It works, and I don't really feel the need to re-do the site. Yes, sure, there are bits that could do with being improved, (The navigation, for one) and there's a whole bundle of things I could tidy up on the site, but well, currently it's working, so I don't know when I'll bother with tidying it up.
However, this page is only going to last in its current configuration for a couple more weeks, so enjoy it while it lasts.
1st January 2005
Assuming that I've got myself slightly organised by now, d4d should now be completely driven under stylesheets, XHTML, and PHP. It had run for 2½ years under the initial 'design' so it was about time to alter things a bit. I've been using PHP and CSS for a lot of other stuff in that time, so it seemed natural to head in that direction, particularly once I'd moved the random section to Wordpress from the original Blogger set-up. That was really the thing that provided the impetus to move the rest over - once one section has a certain look-and-feel then it jars to suddenly head to another section which still has the old one.
d4d is still very much my baby - but at the same time it kind of indicates my feelings too. 2004 has been a year where lots of things have changed for me - mainly for the better - and the changes in d4d's design reflect that. There's still a long way to go with it all, but the feeling at the moment is the most positive I've been in a while. I don't normally go into a new year with this kind of positivity, but 2005 seems to be a very different entity.
Thanks should go to everyone who's kept coming back here over the last 2½ years, and who I hope will continue to do so. This place is going through changes, and so am I - but it's all good, and it's going to be a fun ride.
9th March 2004
Christ, have I really not written anything here for more than six months? Ooops. That really is a bit slack, isn't it?
Actually, I'm sure I have done stuff in the meantime. However, the running of this site between four different PCs means that sometimes I upload old pages on top of newer ones. Not often, thankfully, but it does happen all the same, and I've a feeling that this page was an innocent victim of such a drive-by uploading.
Anyway, life has rumbled on regardless for all the stuff here at d4d™. 2004 dawned bright and bushy-tailed, and there's some updates and upgrades that really do need to happen, once I get round to them. I suspect that there'll be a redesign of some sort, and also a change over to MT if I decide I've got a spare weekend. So, sometime around October then. In the meantime, we're heading towards the 200,000th page impression, having recently belted past the 150,000 without even blinking (or noting it in the blog - ooops) and there's a guest-week at Uborka coming up soon too.
So - time flies like an arrow (and fruit flies like bananas) but d4d lumbers on regardless.