Here comes autumn and a new flavour

As of last night I just finished the rough theme make up of Cherry, the new flavour for this site. It’s loosely based on the theme I have created for the pink for october site and plan to release as a wordpress theme. Yes, this is the first flavour that in some respects you will be able to own yourself, with a slant on the pink for october theme.

Normal service will be resumed shortly

There are many changes that I’m hoping to have time to push onto this site with cherry. The most significant change is a move to the grid hosting on media temple. After hearing a lot of problems I took my time before upgrading to the grid. A short while ago, I moved over logical binary and aside from a few email / ftp issues it wasn’t too bad. I now plan the coming weekend or one after move over this site. This means potential down time as I also plan on upgrading to the new wordpress as will finally have php5 going on. So, the short is if you see a ‘coming soon’ or message of that ilk on this site, I’ve not fallen down the back of the sofa I am just upgrading and whacking on the new theme. As they say ‘normal service will be resumed’. I plan on posting a quickie note when it’s going down and then when it’s back so you should know when this is going on.

Contemplating wooly socks and jumpers

Today seems to be the first knock on the door that autumn is coming to the UK. It’s windy and there is a distinct chill in the air that makes you think of hot chocolate and knitted garments. After the madness of the past few months it’s nice to get back to the focus that a change of season can bring. In the UK autumn and winter are times when we get less light, the evenings are dark and so are the mornings – with this comes oddly often a more productive nature to me. Whilst I was designing cherry I also have been having a renewed enthusiasm for this blog. I’d like to thank everyone for being patient over the past few months when I’ve not posted as regularly as usual. Cherry is potentially only going to be up for October but the new format is something I want to keep for a while.

So long flavours and a few other things…. for now

The one downside of cherry is that what I want to do breaks the other themes. Cherry is a wider theme and something I feel confident doing looking at my user resolution stats – I have yet to decide if this wider site will stay beyond october though. Along with this a lot of other issues come up such as wanting to change the contents beyond the blog that is shown with Cherry. I’m creating a new section called ‘spiration’ which will hold webspiration and colourspiration. I am also loosing one category and that is espresso. Espresso will now be turning into a form of lifestream with my tumblr and other feeds being brought into one place. Again, how much of this is there on launch of cherry or comes soon after is to be confirmed. I’m launching the new pink for october site first and then cherry is being done. With all these changes about half of the previous flavours are going to be pretty useless as focus on sections that simply aren’t used anymore or have become new ones. I plan to slowly bring them all into line over time but for now it’s going to be just one flavour. I have not given up on flavours and hope that cherry brings enough to make up for their temporary loss.

See, I have been busy

I’ve focused so many times on trying to get a new flavour done since the last one and no design every ‘fitted’ as much as cherry seems to. Whilst it’s not going to be totally unique due to being for pink for october, it’s changed enough on this site to work for the month and is forcing the changes I’ve wanted to do for a while around here – so in short all good then. I’m really looking forward to finally getting a new look around here and focusing on new things rather than boiling away ideas that have been lingering for a while.