Drama Breeds Drama
Yeah, okay, seriously - this weekend I'll work on updating to the new look. I've been putting it off for months and I'll most probably just wipe* the slate clean and slowly re-add updated posts with goodies.
I'm not sure what to say about the whole Façade drama on MTF. Although I think it'd of probably been best to not hype things up until they were more settled. I thought I'd take the time to talk about a few things. First off, I'm not really "sided" with anyone concerning Architect-vs-Other Theme Apps. I stopped visiting MTF because it was balls and was growing frustrated with the community and moderation. I don't mean the moderators, I know most of them and they're all awesome guys. I just feel things aren't strict enough, through no fault of their own.
Anyway, Johnny basically hit me up one day and showed me what they were working on and it got me interested. I recently helped them with their website preview. It's not as excellent as I'd of wanted but I didn't get much time to refine it. I liked how the bars, rope and frames turned out however.
So, long story short - too late! - I'm working on a theme. No hype or silly previews or anything. The Façade preview site will feature a preview but that's about it. Hopefully folks will like it. One of the decisions to try Façade and Architect was because of the idea of themes for money. I wanted to explore this. A lot of themers spend a lot of time crafting themes and, to be frank, they don't get a heap for it. The idea of paying for themes is a bit alien. I'm sure there will be a lot of folks who complain and stomp their feet but then you could turn around and say "You don't think a month of work from me is worth the cost of a coffee?" One idea I thought would work well would be for the theme-app developers to charge for the app and then hire themers to create themes. This would keep themes free to the end user, besides the initial cost of the app, and give more top quality themes to market the app with.
I've no clue how much Qui will be. This is more an experiment in seeing if people are willing rather than trying to gouge them. No more than $3 was my first thought. Opinions via comments are welcome on the matter.
Hopefully things work out and it'll breath new life in to Mac theming.
Oh and yes, if things go well, there will be a Niqu 2.
Friday, 5 September (Permalink Suds: 7)
Idle Coffee Makes Work for Coffee Coffee
It's that time again! Busy week this week, I've got to look after my niece and two nephews for most of the week, which is damn tiring, and also work on a couple of pieces of work. I had a peek around and one thing I need to get sorted is Capture. I still find it amazing that something me and Chris did a few years back is still getting recommended by bloggers and websites in new articles. So I'm going to try and catch Chris and talk to him about updating it and everything - it'd be a shame to waste that work.
Need to find time to work on VS Goodies/About code. It was nice to see how easy it was to turn in to an MT4 template. I'm secretly hoping to get the new VS done by the end of the month. Would be really nice to finally have a proper site again for folks to see.
I don't think I've ever drunk as much coffee before.
Tuesday, 19 February (Permalink Suds: 1)
Bugger This!
Six hours ago I said that. I decided I might as well do the VS redesign myself. It's not too flashy, but I think it's pretty. It was even fun to learn a bit of CSS. I've finished the design and code for the front/home and think I'm going to spend the weekend sorting out the other pages seeing how they should flow.
Originally I was going to switch over to Chyrp, but after looking at the way it handles theming - well, it is a 1.x release - I decided "Fuck no". So here's a chance for me to update to MovableType 4, which apparently is a nice upgrade. The new "stand alone" pages that use your theme means I can make unique/non-blog entry content on important pages. I'm not totally sure when I'll be making the switch, if I can get the code finished by monday then template zapping it usually takes a day a most.
Along with all this I'm going to be overhauling the folders and uploaded stuff, organizing it properly and separating old content from the new. So expect things to break in the next two weeks.
On a separate note, I'm enjoying Protector, a pretty nice tower defense game.
Edit: Upgraded to MT4... That was... Painless (so far). Woo!
