Digging in Deeper

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 May 2009 13:14 Written by Andy Saturday, 16 May 2009 12:16

As the name of the site might (or might not)  imply, things will be changing at seemingly irregular, random, and unpredictable intervals here. I have a vision for my site. Perhaps a bit convoluted, but a vision non the less.

As a loving father and husband the chaos of my thoughts is reflected in my environment. When I'm home the kids are blissfully running a muck and I'm often distracted by an irresistible need to have some sort of interaction with my beautiful wife. She is extremely supportive of my need to create but I can't help but feel I might be less than attentive at times. And so, work on the site, my art, and my animation moves in waves as I shift back and forth from the real world to my "special place".

In the real world, my job is going slow. This is good and bad for me. Bad, obviously, because of the reduced income. But, very good because, as you know, I have heaps of work to do on my personal projects and helping Cajsa (that's my beautiful wife I mentioned earlier) with her website. With some upcoming down time from the job I'm really digging into web design. It's been almost 10 years since I've really messed with it and fortunately not much has changed and those that have are significant improvements in the flexibility of the tools.

 I'm currently using the Joomla! CMS (content management system) which was recommended by my cousin. It's extremely powerful, easy to use, and customizable but a little lacking on the templates available. Actually that's a good thing because now I am forced to build a custom template for my site, which I would have probably done anyways. =P

In the not so real world, I've been sifting through forums and tutorals and have begun work on the new "idleflux" template. There are going to be some changes the appearance and organization of the site. In the mean time I will keep posting content with this sligtly modifed default template.