21:23
RESURRECTION: PART II
More updates. Finished the Exercise overhaul, and changed the layout of the main page, so that it looks prettier. Not a lot of difference to the user's eye, but it took me a while to figure it all out and put it all in place, so I'm pleased with it.
The final update this weekend (aside from more blogging, hopefully) will be the About Me page.
21:00
RESURRECTION
The site lives again! For the moment, anyway. Exercise has had an overhaul (though it still needs a bit of work), the recommendations have been updated, as has the job status (but only a very minor update). More exciting is the Featured Story Extract and Exercise News sections of this page. They're random now! Rather than me having to update them every day, they'll automatically be different each time you visit! Well, sort of. There are only four story extracts to choose from (more soon, hopefully) and only three exercise newses.
This weekend will, with any luck, see more updates. Stay tuned!
16:24
More updates!
Slowly, the various parts of the site are coming together. The about me and games pages are now in the new format. The exercise page has been updated too, and doesn't look quite so bare any more.
I'm not too happy with the About Me page though: I think I need to tweak the layout a bit. And I'm considering making the exercise tables different colours just for a bit more visual interest.
14:53
Tiny update.
There's another new logo up, as I noticed that the last one I uploaded was a concept, and not the actual new logo. I'm an idiot. I'm still not happy with it: I may change the position as it looks weird in the bottom right. I may change the whole logo. I'm also updating the main page, the exercise page and the games page.
14:00
Back to business.
There's a new logo up, and I'm updating the main page. I'm also changing Exercise. Next step will be to polish the front page and finalise a colourscheme. Then I need to figure out some way to dynamically update the front page. I tell you, I'll be glad when I'm at the stage where all I have to do is update the content. Actually building websites really isn't my thing.
13:32
Website version 2 up!
Well, a basic version of the front page, anyway. It's nowhere near as polished as I want, and there's no automation yet, but this should give you an idea of where the site's headed, and should hopefully cut down on the bounce rate, as there's actually something to see now.
16:48
Long time no update!
Well, I've been too busy with wedding prep and holidays to pay the site the attention it deserves, I'm afraid. And to be honest, it's unlikely to get much attention from now until early October, due to more wedding prep and then honeymooning.
Still, there's been quite a bit going on. The blog now has several entries and a comment (so at least one person's reading), the google juice is flowing nicely - a search for Michael Bunning brings up the site as the first result, and the blog as the second. There's links to the site and blog on Facebook and LinkedIn and soon there should be links on Giant Bomb and Moby Games, all of which will help. Exercise has been put on hiatus until October, the main page has been updated and the 'About Me' has been updated to include my Giant Bomb profile.
Next stage is (still!!) to get a logo and try to make the blog look more like the rest of the site. And to figure out something actually interesting to put on the main page. At the moment it's a dreadful intro to the site. Perhaps I'll change the 'about me' page to be the main page, and swap the main page to something else.
I also want to change the look of the site - it's very corporate. There's some designs in a very preliminary planning stage, but as with everything else, they're going to have to wait for a month or so.
22:37
Blog Am Go!
Blog's up now, properly. And by that, I mean that there are blog posts. Two of them. No viewers, of course, since no-one knows it exists yet, but there's content there, and that's enough for now.
Oh, I've updated 'Exercise', too, although there's not much to update on that score.
Next stage is (still) to get a logo and try to make the blog look more like the rest of the site. And get some google-juice pumping through the engines, so that people might actually be able to find the site.
18:07
Almost at 'first draft' stage!
Big update today (or at least it feels like it). All the sections have been updated to include slogans and footer text, email addresses have been set up, 'Exercise' has been updated with my (lack of) exercise progress, 'Home' has been edited to look like the rest of the site, and the placeholder text has been replaced in 'About Me' and 'Fiction'.
Also, I've uploaded three stories (the two planned and a bonus one) so there's something for people to read.
Next stage is to get a logo - I hate the text that's there now - write a blog post or two and try to make the blog look more like the rest of the site.
Phew!
13:30
Site Goes More Live!
That's better. We're not there yet - we're a long way from there yet - but things are starting to look more like a real website. There's content now, for a start.
Not much of it, and 'Fiction' and 'About Me' still just have placeholder text, but at least there's something to look at.
Next stage is to get real text into 'Fiction' and 'About Me' (and upload the two stories for 'Fiction'); Change the logo, picture, slogan and footer to make the site look like it's mine and not the corporate template I'm basing it on; change the way the blog looks so it fits in more with the rest of the site; setup blog links to important places (like back here, for starters) and then actually write a blog post or two.
20:36
Site Goes Live!
Sort of, anyway. There's only the one tab, the design's far from final, and there's no actual content, let alone any Google-juice powering it, but there's no denying the fact that this is a website and it's online. Expect more very soon!