The first WordPress theme is now available on the downloads page of Digital Spaceboy! Dark Orange is a simple, dark, widget ready theme that’s easily customisable.

See the live demo | Dowload zipped folder

It’s been way too long since I last posted - but it’s for good reasons, as I’ve been so busy lately I can barely remember my firstborn’s name!

My final project for uni and a very dear project of mine is now live, although I am still working on making it better. It’s build in Expression Engine and there will be much more content to come and I plan to introduce new features soon, including commenting on the articles and book reviews to allow true user participation and community feel.

Visit ASD Families

A little drive-by entry again!

I’ve been working on my first ExpressionEngine site, and I am totally and utterly in love. As someone who is a designer first and foremost, the way you build sites with EE is amazingly easy, and the ease of use for the client is great. I also love their URL structure, which I had heard some criticism about. A designer I spoke to said it was a bad idea for the URL to reflect the template system as the back end should be hidden from the user - but I thought that it’s brilliant exactly because of that: you can name your template groups and templates to describe the content, making it extremely user-friendly and semantic.

I was originally apprehensive about the browser interface, being used to hand coding in Dreamweaver and uploading my files, but after a short period of getting used to it, I find it ok now. I would still prefer to be able to use keyboard shortcuts when editing my HTML and CSS, but writing the code in Dreamweaver before moving it to EE takes away a large amount of the hassle.

There is sooo much more I could say about ExpressionEngine, but I’ll have to get back to it when I’m not up to my eyeballs in work! Being busy is good, but I’m looking forward to getting some time to just catch up on my favourite blogs and write some more for my own as well

The EE site, which is aimed at families in the UK who have children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, will be going live soon. And I’ll definitely be working with EE in the future as well!