maple’s.fortunes

I am pleased to present to you, my fine readers, my latest web development project. Over the last little while I have been working on a redesign for my sister’s Music for Children business website. Without further ado, here it is:

The design is based on one of my favourite OSWD designs, Pat Heard’s lazydays. I love the original design and I love our modified design. I did a lot of the graphical work for our design, which isn’t something I normally do. I got some new software, as you are probably aware from my last post, which made it really easy to do. The one thing that was surprising hard was making the grass. It took a long time, but in the end it was worth it.

I am really happy with the way this website turned out. Just as before, it is powered by WordPress. I love WordPress, I use it for everything I can. If you haven’t tried it, I’d give it a shot.

If you want to check out the site for reals, you can find it at http://www.musicforchildren.ca.

Well, I finally got around to fixing the IE problems. It didn’t take very long, I just didn’t really ever feel like doing it until today.

Also, the domain is now http://www.maplesfortunes.com. joelsteeves.com should still work, as will maplesfortunes.ca.

Well, as you have probably noticed I finished the new design. There is still some bugs to work out, but I’ll hopefully get those all fixed with in the next couple days. If you notice something unusual please do tell. I already know about how the navigation on the right is longer than the rest of the page on some pages.

Oh, and I haven’t switched over the domain yet. I’ll do that once I get all the bugs worked out. And I would like to know what you think. I spent a lot of time on this and I value your feedback. That means you Alex. I know you’re reading this, so you really should comment.

EDIT: I’ve got the right navigation acting the way it should. The only thing I can find now is the portfolio page. I’m working on that.

Okay, so here is the deal. I’m currently being hosted at Site5. I love it. I have never had any problems with them, unlike my other crappy hosting company. They have this wicked awesome back end they call Backstage and it is so easy to use. It looks awesome too. They are also very nicely priced. You get so much for so little.

Basically, what I am trying to say is that if you need web hosting, Site5 is where it’s at. I’m not going to lie, I do make money off of each person I get to sign up. I wouldn’t be doing this, however, if I didn’t actually like Site5. I absolutely love it, I wouldn’t recommend any other place. So, if you do decide Site5, please click on one of the links above so I do get money, because I need it. Thanks!
On another note, I bought two new domains. Look for those in the next few days.

This site has been neglected. I do apologize for that, but I have been busy working on many other projects. I finished the Blue Ridge Outfitters site, finally. I’m also working on a site for a photographer and her business, Precious Portrait. I am also redoing the SCHS site, cause the last one sucked, big time. This time, I’m doing it without them saying what they want, because what they want just doesn’t work. Like hover dropdown menus. Yeah, I can do it, but it is annoying for the end user (and me!). I am also working on a Maple Design revamp, because lets be honest, the current design sucks. I also finished a new version of the Kodaly Music for Children site. I’m also working on a site that has stuff for sale, so that when we put an ad in the paper, we can just put the website. Then people can go look at pictures, and get more details etc.
Now, for the plea. If any of you reading this are using Internet Explorer, please stop. Go get yourself a real browser, such as Firefox. I am sick and tired of having to rewrite code, and add special stylesheets for stupid IE. So please, do a web developer a favour and switch browsers. Please! IE also has many problems besides not being standards compliant, oh such as security. So it is in your best interest (and mine) for you to switch over to something else. Visit StopIE for more info.

Okay, so heres the scoop. Yesterday, my MySQL database corrupted. My backup was also corrupted. Anywho, after that my server crashed, and now I am being hosted through site5. So far they are really good. As you can probably notice, the design is gone. I am working on that. I also lost the post data, but thanks to Google Cache, I should be able to repost everything, then just edit the timestamps. It did allow me to upgrade though, so I am now running the lastest version of wordpress.

Well, as you have probably noticed, I changed the design and layout of the site. I didn’t actually technically design this myself, I got it from Open Source Web Design. I was too lazy to do it myself. I still had to make it work with WordPress though. That took like 6 hours or so, I know its a long time just to take something that is already made and apply it, but there was so many small details and such. Anyways, its all done now, or at least I think it is. If you encounter any problems, or strange things, please do report them. Thanks, I hope you like it.

I went ahead and created a new design. So far, I’m liking it. I made the header image in GIMP. I actually made it for my wallpaper (which I am still using it for). Then it gave me inspiration for my blog. I had always wanted to redesign it, as I really didn’t want to use the default theme that anyone who installs WordPress has. If you notice something not working properly, or something, please tell me. I need to know these things. Also, I would appriecate feedback on the design. Well, thats about all for now.

Well, I’ve moved servers, and the moved domains as well. My new blog can be found at http://www.joelsteeves.com I will no longer be updating this site. The RSS feeds also moved, if you go to my new site, I will have links to them in the navigation soon. For now, there are links at the bottom. The reason this site looks so funny is because I am trying to import the posts into my new blog. I don’t know if it is going to work, but we’ll see. Well, that’s all. Good bye blogger. Once again, my new blog can be found at http://www.joelsteeves.com

Well, I finally got WordPress up and going. I will be fiddling around with the settings, making it better over the next few days. As for previous posts, they may or may not be coming. Sorry. Hopefully, all will go well, and I’ll have this all going by next week sometime. As for my Maple Design site, it might be down for a while. I am trying to get it to work. But whatever, we will see.