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.

Unfortunately when it comes to practicing what you preach some companies just don’t quite get it.

A recent site that appeared on a few CSS showcases was webdesignvalidation.com which within a few seconds you can recognise that it is a site that validates and corrects your website for you (apparently for free and for a cost).

The problem is that right off the bat they say “site doesn’t look the same on all browsers or on other computers.” which leads me right to the ‘validate this website’ in my tool bar - the results are good - the site is valid but what about those other browsers?

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