I’ve just rolled out a massive update to Sharpfolio, my WordPress Portfolio Theme. There’s a heap of new features, including things that many of you’ve been asking for like comment support, automatic “lightboxing” and image resizing, custom pages and a completely re-worked design.

Since this is a complete refresh, there’s bound to be a couple of outstanding issues (from my personal testing it’s fairly air-tight), and I’d love to hear what you think, so if you’ve got any comments be sure to throw them my way.

Enjoy.

As previously mentioned, I’ve just switched over to WebRevolutionary’s new design. While the old design was quite well received by most, I felt that it lacked the versatility I needed, had fairly poor typography, and, well, I was getting a little bored.

To some, the new design (unofficially named “Greyscale”) may not look quite as flashy, or as colourful as the previous incarnation, but that exactly what I was aiming for. The new theme is geared towards being clean, legible, well layed out, wider and more flexible. I enjoyed diving straight into the markup with this design, skipping the Photoshop mockup process entirely. This means that I was able to give more focus to the functionality and practicality of the blog, rather than it’s digs. I’m sure I’ll be tweaking this thing around for weeks, so if you find any gaping holes or oversights please get in touch with me.

In this new era for WebRevolutionary, I’m going to focus on making the posts colourful enough to balance out the… greyness of the layout, both in the literal and metaphorical sense.

As for the old red/black/blue theme, I’m about to start cleaning it up for public release. Either one individual who’s looking for a solid, unique theme for their blog, or, failing that a free download for the world to ingest. If you’d like to discuss the prospect of making the theme yours, again, just get in touch.

Hi there!

Well hello there! You’ve stumbled upon the inaugural post of my humble little web blog. This is hopefully the beginnings of a well-established and frequently-updated experience.

So, who am I?

My name is Matt, and I like to consider myself as many different things. Primarily, I’m a web designer, but lately I’ve been licking my lips at the premise of developing and managing my own *web 2.0* app, but more about that a bit later.

Why?

The aim of this blog isn’t going to be to generate ad revenue. It’s going to be a place for me to express my thoughts, to teach others some of the things that I’ve learned along my journeys, and a means of communication and networking. I’d love to make new friends, begin educated discussions and just have fun.

I’m about to embark on a project that I have been planning on for some time. Which I will be gradually releasing more information about over the next few weeks. I plan on using this blog to document the rollercoaster journey of single-handedly building a web application, and to share my successes and inevitable hardships with readers.

Well, that’s it. Enjoy.