Put this together in 10 mins using a normal circle brush, render lighting and a blurry picture of a hedge – feel free to use this as your twitter background or anywhere else (please let me know if you use it as I would love to see where it ends up). See this in place on my twitter page…

(Click to enlarge; 1857px by 1354px)

Also have a few larger similar versions on GraphicRiver here and here!

Couple of colour variations:

Red effect;

Blue effect;

Wordpress is being difficult with me, maybe because I have neglected to update to 2.7 from 2.5, or maybe because I haven’t given it the love and attention it needs… either way, this only really accelerates the need for me to finally update my website.

I have been working on and off on a theme for a while – I keep going back and tweaking this, nudging that, recolouring the other bits and so on and so forth. If you knew what my life ‘to-do’ list looked like it would make more sense however I do feel so lazy for not keeping up to date and current.

Wordpress though has decided that if I am indeed not going to update the site and not going to pay it attention then it will start to break things on it’s own accord. The major (and seems currently only) problem is that the media image manager will no longer browse for images on a post I have been writing… for no reason… even though I can browse for an image on any other page/post. I am not being presented with an error either so I guess that leaves me scratching my head wondering why it is being difficult; is it because my site was recently moved to a different server and this post I’m editing is pre-move? Or is there something actually wrong with the database or installation? I have no idea, but, for this version I am not going to dedicate too much time finding out.

I am really looking forward to updating the site even if it is just to re-enforce my name on the web. Writing is not my strongest point and neither is simply finding time to write (though I do really enjoy it once I get going… as you can probably see). I will keep you posted!

edit: I can spell. Honest.

Just a short post to let you know I am working on a new version of the site which will cater to what exactly what I want the site to do.

I didn’t take long for me to realise that working as a full time web designer somewhat lowers the motivation to then go home and write about my thrilling adventures in the interwebs. With that in mind I decided to make some severe structure improvements to juggle around what is more important.

Looking at stats and the holes in my current site so far I have decided:

• Blog has been neglected and takes up far too much of the site for me.
• The site needs to be more about me, what I do and things I think (rather than trying to nudge into the ‘web design blog’ market).
• Need to add more networked features such as a better looking (or working) twitter feed, facebook links, flickr feed, favourite blogs and sites feed and generally easier to access “self updating” extras.
• Scrap the sidebar – content for me just doesn’t need to be laid out this way.
• Improve the visuals and integrate actual content more into the design (at the moment the layout is far too ‘design here content there’).
• Finish everything I set out to achieve. Minimise page length the actual useful content and maximise on work done using better visuals and scrap tiny thumbnails (I’m not exactly a big enough company to warrant having a huge portfolio!)
• Accept that the site needs to be an online business card and ongoing project rather than a full blown blog and moneymaker.

What do you think?

I would really like to invite any feedback on any ideas which would help me improve my site and ultimately myself in the way I design.