So, what am I up to right now you might ask. A new version of this site is in the making, and I hope to get it up as soon as I can. I’ve also saved some drafts of articles to discuss later on, which will be as soon as the new site is up and working. There will be more links, more features and I’ll hopefully be able to create a better experience as a whole.

I’ve got some really rad ideas on how to solve some problems I expirenced doing the current one. I’m aiming towards a little bit more personal design with some advanced layout solutions. I’m currently playing around with the layout so I don’t have a timeframe in mind as of now. But it hopefully won’t take too long.

Ps. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I prefer to stick to relevent notes here while focusing entierly on the site in general. Thanks for understanding. Ds.

So, the vacation was great and both Hannah and I are very pleased with the ink, and that means that it’s time to start up the design process again. It’s been far too long since I’ve done something creative. Which is a shame. I’ve been thinking about redesigning the portfolio again, that might do the trick.

I’m planning to launch joelhelin.com in the summer of 2008, wich means that I’ll start doing some layout work now. No stress there. Read more about that project here.

Hannah launched her Swedish blog using WordPress 2.5. This is her first experience with PHP and she’s doing an amazing job finding widgets and modifying the code to fit her needs. She’ll be an excellent designer some day, I’m sure.  

We had a big book sale a couple of days ago and I took the opportunity to look for some web and/or design related ones. I found a couple of candidates but none of them where included in the sale, but I bought one about CSS anyway since I really wanted to dig deeper into the subject and maybe learn some new techniques. The one I bought was; Styling with CSS – A designers guide by Charles Wyke-Smith.

I’ve only read about 20-25 pages but it’s really good reading so far. It’s seems to be more for beginners but what the heck, something new could be learnt since I’ve only been learning it from other sites source code and some tutorials online.  

I decided to pull the plug on my personal blog on blogspot with the ambition to strengthen this one. It felt kind of weird to keep people updated at two places simultainiously linking back and forth about different posts and work. Anyway, I decided to keep this one alive and make it more personal, so this is my first attempt to keep it that way.

It feels a little strange to kill something that I’ve kept alive for such a long time. But I’m ready to take this shot and see where it goes, kind of a fresh start. And we all need that sometimes. Don’t we?