This posts marks my 500th post for this little site. In the comic book industry this number is a massive one that only a handful of titles have ever achieved. Although not even close to that sort of achievement, it’s nice to attain this milestone in the life of a website, that was only meant to be as an easy method to update the news section of my portfolio site.

The site was originally set up to chronicle the road to getting published in the comic book industry. which is kind of fitting that I can recount the following story at this time:

One of the traditions on a lazy Sunday for me is to go around 3 o’clock to the local newsstand and check out the different design magazines and what not. I’ve not renewed my subscription to Computer Arts, mainly because of the old editor-in-chief who in my view ruined the magazine. I’ll be checking out the magazine now that someone else seems to be at the helm. So I’m checking what’s on offer, and I picked up Practical Web Design. I’ve never picked up this magazine in my life, as I generally tend to gravitate towards Computer Arts, Digit, Digital Creative and Creative Review.

So I started flicking through the magazine, and I get to a featured called ‘Build Quick CSS Templates’. The double page spread had several websites screen shots repeated a few times throughout both pages. As I started looking through the page for inspiration I noticed something very familiar. You can imagine the little girly scream I let out when I saw Broken Kode in there as well! My humble little site has seen print as well now.

Joen, you’ll be pleased to know that Noscope was featured in there as well. Could the guilty party who gave us this little bit of exposure PLEASE STAND UP :).

Project Update

I always complete my projects. The only problem is that I generally take a little longer than I'd like to, but my problem is that I have too many ideas and not enough time in the day to get around to giving these projects their proper time. As I'm not really happy doing a half-assed job on something they take a bit longer than usual.

Shuttle

I'll be doing my next workshop post in the coming week to discuss the plugins section. Things have slowed down again on that front, but it goes through dribs and drabs. Nothing to worry about. It'll take as long as it takes and will be great when it's done.

Broken Kode | Season One

Yeah like I was going to forget this little project. Hardly. This weekend I spent a good portion of it formating the first year of posts into a book. I've got a lot of ideas for this one to make it special, but I don't want to talk about it in too much detail now as I want to keep it for when the book is complete and at Lulu. I've enjoyed creating the look of this book as anything else I've worked on in the past year. Within one day I've been able to go from a 100 page open office file, to 300 pages of formatted pdf goodness. If I get everything done correctly then Season One will be much more than a Blook. I will enter it for consideration into the Blooker Prize. The biggest buzz for me will be having a book in my dirty little hands with my name on the spine.

What’s been interesting is going through and spell checking everything. My god there are some serious errors in there. I’ve not changed any words in there, just corrected the spelling. There’s a reason for that as well, which will make the final product very different and more than just a collection of blog posts.

Blogging Portal

You thought I'd forgotten hadn't you? For all those in the dark, I mentioned a while ago that I was interested in doing a WordPress Portal. Well now it's a Blogging Portal. I will hopefully be talking more about this sometime later this week. It will be something focused on the community and while the start of it will be closed to a select number of people, I want to make sure people understand that the portal will be open for everyone and will have a focus on the end user rather than a specific product/tool etc.

The best thing I’ve gotten from the 9rules network isn’t the exposure. Sure I’ve gotten some steady exposure from there, however the best thing is the interaction with the other members of the network. I’ve met some seriously cool people, many of which which I’ll be working with in the coming years for sure. I’m hoping that this portal will be able to bring people closer together and enhance their blogging experience.

Super Secret WordPress Project

Well this one I've actually told absolutely no one about except obviously the person that's my partner in crime, one AvalonSTAR. Still very early days, and I don't want to mouth off before we're a bit more into this project. It's a slow burner but I'm extremely excited about it. Think outside the box.