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Jun 23 Papa's got a Brand New Blog!Permanent Link

Jam! ‘I’ve got ants in my pants and I need to dance (etc.)’

... and so here it is – my all new blog powered by txp.
Blogger was fantastic for what I needed at the time, and the blogger site itself was superbly designed – indeed, I can highly recommend it as a quick start to the world of blogging.

But it was time for me to move on me thinks …

First off, I just wanna say thanks to a few people who have helped me a truck-load with getting this sorted:

The blogging legend that is John Oxton for all his help and advice, along with his right hand man (oo-err, not like that) Graham Bancroft who has been a star in getting it set up and also fixing things after I’d ‘gone in’ after with a metaphorical hammer!
Steve Dickinson from TXP Plugins has been unbelievably helpful and full of enthusiasm for my ‘cause’. I will be putting into place some of his txp ideas some time soon I hope.
So, give yourselves several pats on he back from me – it is very much appreciated!

OK. What’s new. Well the site certainly isn’t perfect yet – my understanding of txp is still limited, but I’m hoping to slicken things up as quickly as possible. Oh, and excuse my current flickr pics at the mo – it looks like I’m being vain when really I don’t have any other digital pics on my machine at present – heh! I am also adding outbound links as I’m going – as we all do I guess.

One feature I am hoping to incorporate soon is that of having character illustrations produced for invited regular readers. These will only be shown when they, themselves, post a comment – a bit like when I currently post a reply myself (see below). What do people think of this idea? I’ve spoken through the concept with some txp gurus and it seems very feasible indeed from the feedback I was given …

Anyways, I hope folk like the site. I’m going to be adding loads more illustration samples and design samples to my portfolio real soon, so have a look next time you happen to find yourself here. As well as some groov-sum web design jobbies and stuff.

I’ve also just recently returned from @media in London – which was great – and I’ve got some comments to air about it all which I will do soon …

Crikey – got loads more I could say, but look at the time! I’m spent …

  1. kevadamson | Jun 23, 01:50 | #

    As explained above, this is how my replies will look …

  2. Anonymous | Jun 23, 01:51 | #

    ... while other replies will look like this.

  3. Michael Grinstead | Jun 23, 07:46 | #

    Late night I’m guessing :)

    Great design, love the idea for custom characters for your regular readers, also like the text size buttons to the right. I’m a big fan of your work so look fwd to seeing your new stuff soon.

  4. alex | Jun 23, 09:15 | #

    Very nice design!! I like your illustrations, they are really well done.
    Linked you up on TXP Magazine.

  5. Daniel | Jun 23, 10:10 | #

    I love it. Nice idea about the illustrations as well, I think that would add a real nice touch to the site. Look forward to seeing your new posts and additions to the site in the future. Nice one.

  6. Michael Grinstead | Jun 23, 19:00 | #

    Kev Just noticed that on some pages there is a white block across the page, which I believe is the list class .plus-nav. This mainly appears when viewing the animations, see the following link…

    Screen Shoot
    (the red border is the outline from the dev tool ext for Fx)

  7. kevadamson | Jun 23, 19:23 | #

    Cripes! I’ll have to look into that issue.

    @Michael: Cheers mate. I've fixed that now - sort of. Seemed that 'swfobject' plus 'fixed position element', equals 'weird white bar across screen' - in this case anyhow. I've fixed it with 'position: absolute;' for the time being - no great shakes as there isn't much scrolling on these pages. I tried messing with the z-index but no joy ...

    @everyone thus far: Cheers for the positive feedback …

  8. John Oxton | Jun 25, 03:02 | #

    I just want to add that given I am a right handed I would never hire a right hand man to fulfill the promise of your brackets (ooo…errr) but rather a left hand [wo]man… ayeee thank you.

  9. kevadamson | Jun 25, 03:14 | #

    “Ladels and Gentle-Ben, Mr John Oxton …” [Raptuous applause]

    He’s here all week (actually, he’s not, he’s in ‘New Yoik’, but yu know what I mean)

  10. gato | Jun 26, 13:34 | #

    hi, errm—can i get ur feed pls? couldnt find a rss/atom link…
    im lovin this blog :)

  11. kevadamson | Jun 26, 13:52 | #

    @Gato: Yeah, no probs. The links are in the right column – prob need to add the lil rss icon to make it easier to find. Try adding one of the following to your feedreader:

    http://www.kevadamson.com/talking-of-design
    /atom/atom.xml

    http://www.kevadamson.com/talking-of-design
    /rss/rss.xml

    Cheers

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