Sponge Project Blog

Show me your beenie in support of web standards.

Not a complete re-design, but a re-alignment and new template for my blog. This new theme I’ve called Blue Beast, which is adapted from the marvelous Beast-Blog v.2.0 theme by Mike Cherim.

So why change? Well first off the old template was quite slow to load stuff. This new one is a lot quicker. Secondly, the old template wasn’t really up to scratch for web standards and accessibility. This one offers me much more flexibility and comes with some built in wizardry.

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Show you support.

There’s a competition running over at Web Designer Forum which I thought I’d enter. Problem is it closed on Monday 5th November, but I found out about it on the 3rd …so cue some hardcore and very fast coding.

Well here’s my entry if your interested. Thought I’d post it here for posterity. Check it out. I didn’t win incidentally, but it was good to give the brain an exercise.

Great news for independent financial advisers, I’m now offering a website building service just for them!

Calling on my years in financial services, I’ve decided to put this experience to good use in the web sphere.
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