New Site, Next Screencast, New Software...

Just wanted to announce a new site I designed using Freeway 5 located at www.production-studios.com. It had been quite a while since I had originally laid out the first design, but now I've redesigned it from the ground up and things have turned out quite well. The turning point in my design process was using the wood-background found on this blogspot and utilizing it in the designed site. It provides a clean and tailored feel and also draws attention to the way the photographs appear on the various pages. Thanks to Brandon and Sarah for the opportunity to clean up the site and I wish the best of luck to them in getting Production Studios running at full speed.

In other news, my next screencast is coming up and is being worked on. I've just checked my download stats tracker and about 50 people have downloaded my second blogger tutorial + template released in the last post. It's been downloaded faster than the other one and that's exciting and I've been receiving some solid feedback on it. Thanks to those who have downloaded it. However my next screencast steps away from Blogger and moves to another CMS (Content Management System) named Expression Engine. I've been learning Expression Engine for a project I'm working on and I have been finding it even easier to implement over my CMS Made Simple routine.

The site is being built without actions (although Joe Muscara it's been tempting) and has been written with tags in tact plus using Tim Plumb's paragraph tags action. It's actually easier for someone whose never used tags much before to figure out plus it's all done in Freeway 5. My next screencasts will be how I'm implementing Expression Engine tags into Freeway 5 then into Expression Engine and then finish with a preview. So stay tuned to that.

Finally I'd like to wrap things up with praise for a software item I've recently acquired named TextMate. I had seen the software title thrown around on a few websites with mixed reviews and never really considered it thinking it was just another text editor and felt that I was satisfied with Text Wrangler meaning that I didn't need anything else. I downloaded a trial and messed around with it and it's super intuitive and also an Expression Engine bundle can be added to it that with a few clicks can drop in the tags needed without having to look them up. Very convenient, 5 big stars to them.

That's all. Thanks for reading.