Almost Finished

Posted by stephen on Sunday, 04th March, 2007 @ 23:31

For ages now I've been meaning to firstly redesign this site, and secondly move it from Plone to Django. About a week ago I was going through my old bookmarks and found Open Source Web Design and had a look through the many lovely templates made available there. I thought about why I'd previously felt like I shouldn't use one, and when I considered that I happily use open source software for everything else on this site it seemed silly that I wasn't willing to use an open source design too.

So I accepted my limited creativity for the visual aspects web design and decided upon this template, andreas02 by Andreas Viklund who's also produced some other rather fetching designs. So thanks to him and the many and various authors of Django, Python, Apache, MySQL, Linux and all the tools in between for providing such a great foundation to get creative in the bits I'm most interested in and leaving the rest to them.

So now I've moved the blog, the photos, the (limited) links, docs and software sections and all that's left is videos and some general tidy ups. As much as possible I've managed to include support for old URLs to keep links and search results working. I'll write later the process of moving the site from Plone to my own Django creation.