Site news

Just a quick post to explain my current lack of posting.
My website is shortly moving to another location and I am working a lot on a complete overhaul.
The website moving is great news for several reasons.
Firstly I will no longer be blagging webspace from my good friend Chris - he has been incredibly patient and has allowed me to take up half of his webspace for a long time.
Second I will now have my own domain name. This means my web address will be much easier to remember. I'm not giving out this new address until the website is completely refurbished at its new location ;-)
Thirdly I can now expand without worrying about taking up someones webspace. This means lots of new pictures.

The changes I am making to my website are mostly in two areas.
First is the aforementioned pictures section - I have a huge backlog that I haven't uploaded yet and it will be great to add them to the site.
Second is my wishlist/gaming section. There was never really much interest in these sections since the wishlist section was mostly a place for me to remember all the cool things I wanted to buy and my gaming section wasn't detailed enough to attract attention.
I am consolodating these two sections into one big section which will cover all my different hobbies including gaming, reading, comics, collecting and some others which I hope will provide a more interesting insight into my hobbies, why they became my hobbies and what they mean to me.
Minor changes are being made to the layout of the site in general. The links bar at the side will be reduced since it will no longer be possible for me to include a link to every pictures page (these links will now be in a seperate pictures section). Also I hope to make the site a bit more graphical since it seems a bit plain to me at the moment. I made it plain originally because it looks quite professional but I think my personal site could do with a bit more of a personal touch.

Once my new site is up and running it is my hope that I can start writing my blog again daily as well as keeping my pictures section up to date. Aside from that I hope to begin work once again on my family tree section which has one or two family members missing (new arrivals) and soon there will be one or two more as well (congratulations to Alec and Suzanne!!!)

Well I think that pretty much covers it for now. As for an estimated date for the launch of the new site - who knows....
I hope to be done by the start of next week but it very much depends on how much free time I have. I would quite like to completely redo the site before I launch it rather than launching it and then working on it afterwards - it gives me more of an incentive to get it done if I am working towards launching the new site.

Anyway, I hope everyone is well and I hope you will all enjoy the changes I make. I would lastly ask that if anyone can offer me any advice or suggestions on how I can make the new site better in any area at all then please email me. Your opinions can only make it better for us all :-)

I will try and post updates on my progress to give you a better idea of when I will be done but until next time...

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