Well I’ve just re-designed this blog, given it a completel overhaul and I have to say I’m surprised I could turn out something this good.  Its probably one of my better designs.

Anyway, I’ve added a videos section and migrated my very small gallery from Gallery2 to nextGen Gallery because its so much easier to integrate into wordpress although its a bit harder to create an actual gallery page that displays everything.  Despite this I quite like it, its a lot neater than the Gallery2 in terms of install as well.

Tubepress is what I’ve used to integrate video into this blog, it’s quite a nifty little tool with a good level of cuztomisability.  As you can see it’s also widgetised so it can go in the sidebar.  Easy to install, easy to use.  A few simple steps and you’ve got quite a nice looking video feature for your blog.  I’d originally installed the all-in-one video pack but that proved to be too complicated for my purposes and didn’t provide the facilities to create the ‘gallery’ style page that I wanted (although I might have given up a little prematurely on it)

Designing this website has prompted me to use photoshop again and brings me back to the days of my digital space art and my 3d bryce renders.  A hint of things to come perhaps…