another new design

Posted on July 21, 2008

You may notice that this site has yet another new design today. I’ve left blogger and gone back to wordpress and hosted the blog. I like Blogger and I really like the idea of hosted applications but it just wasn’t giving me the control I wanted and I was finding it time consuming to get things the way I wanted. 

It’s not you, it’s me.

Hosted applications are great and Blogger has got to be one of the best free ones out there. I really do like it, but we wanted to make all our goroam pages consistent, so we bought the great thesis theme from diythemes. We bought a developer licence so we could use it on all our sites and would be free to modify it. 

I wanted something with a little more space for this blog, I liked running things down the side but it was getting too long and I had no space for anything else. For goroam and citrus I wanted to get something that would combine both the info at the top and blogs towards the bottom. Again in the next week or two we’l hopefully get there with this new theme.

is this the last change?

Honestly, no. I’ll probably change a whole load of things over the coming weeks to try and differentiate the sites. Mostly I think I just like to change things.

Finding my voice

Posted on June 17, 2008

Welcome to my new blog. I’ve tried a couple in the past and haven’t managed to find my voice and get them going, but I’m going to try again. I’ll basically be talking about bootstrapping our company, coding and other things I thing are interesting or relevant but I can’t promise any of it will be well written, or interesting to you, though I’ll try. You can help by letting me know what you think is good or more importantly what you think is bad in the comments.

The design is close to what I imagined, but I’m no designer. I can beat things into a rough shape approximation what I think would look good, but I can never get the smooth finish I’d like. As with the writing I’ll work to improve this as I go.

the conversation

This is a conversation, the comments are as important as the posts and it’s a fine line to tread. I’m not setting out to moderate the conversation in any great way; I don’t have the time or inclination. I’ll largely leave it alone and respect constructive criticism and comment. I won’t respect attacks personal or otherwise though and will delete any and all comments which set out to disrupt the conversation

I’m a sell out

There are no ads on here at the moment, but one day when there are pageviews I’ll probably put them on here. I reserve the right to sell out at any time – so it’s probably best if you just consider me a sell out from day one. You can quote me:

Andrew McCall is a sell out, he uses his blog for personal financial gain and to shamelessly plug businesses, products and other things which will either directly profit him or people he knows.

So there you have it, my latest effort is launched – please stick around, hopefully enjoy and hit the comments to let me know how I can make it better.