Progress

Work on my journalism site is flowing. I spent five hours playing with the look of it on Saturday and another two last night, trying to complete the front page for template purposes.

My main issue at the moment is how to fill the content section, where the news/features would be. I haven't got any problem with the content itself, just the look of the front page.

The question is do I leave it a completely bare editable region or should I impose structure within it?

At the moment I think leave it bare because that offers maximum scope.

I'm also considering whether to have a Flash/timeline element to the front page. Eventually, yes, but for now, to move things on I think I'll keep things static with the exception of an RSS feed.

The site is growing rapidly and I'll be able to fill it substantially soon with examples of my journalism over the last few years.

Once that's done I can test out a search engine for the site, this will, like adding an RSS feed, be another new skill for me.

I'm enjoying this process a lot and I'm delighted with the progress I'm making. I was hoping to put a fully functioning site up by the end of August but, at my current rate of knots, it will be well before that.

Of course the first version will be bare and flawed but this site will grow organically over the months into something really good.

All this is heartening particularly after the slow progress I've made in the past. All that hard work is paying off and has made this project much speedier.