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Sep5

Design a YikeSite – Win an iPhone!

By Andy in Design, News

iPhoneCreate a great new YikeSite theme before October 5th and you may well wind up with a new iPhone heading your way.

Head on over to the YikeSite Blog for more details on the contest. It’s even open to non-US residents.

Sep4

One Of Fifty On Smashing Magazine

By Andy in Design, News

Smashing MagazineAs part of their one year anniversary, Smashing Magazine have compiled answers to six questions from fifty web professionals across the globe. It’s yet another excellent insight and resource from them.

As with their previous article a few months back, I was again flattered to be asked to contribute. The questions this time around were a little more in-depth, as a result there are some really well thought out, high quality answers in there.

They have split the article into two parts, with the first part covering the first three questions. The second part will be released later in the week.

Head over and check it out, it’s an excellent read and it was a lot of fun taking part.

Aug28

YikeSite CMS Launches!

By Andy in Design, News, Projects

YikeSite LogoYikeSite – a brand new rails based CMS solution launched this afternoon. I just got back from the launch party, and they had great cake!

YikeSite offers the best of both worlds. It’s simple enough for the technically challenged to log in and edit their website, but also offers advanced customization functions and a theme API for the more technically astute.

Jeff Ward who is the president of Animikii, and the chief brain behind the YikeSite project was recently interviewed by The Web 2.0 Show. If you’re interested in listening to what Jeff had to say about the project and the development process, head on over and download the MP3.

I recently worked with Jeff and Animikii to design and code the public website and default template for YikeSite. It was really awesome to work with them, especially on such a new and cool project.

If you’re looking to start up an easy to maintain website, or want to get your clients using something they can understand, give YikeSite a shot.

Aug24

Domain/Email Issues

By Andy in News

People emailing me over the past couple of days may have had their messages rejected. My domain registration expired two days ago, and I wasn’t notified to renew it. Everything should be back up and working now, sorry for the outage!

Please try resending your messages.

Aug9

Web Posse Meeting with Jim Rutherford

By Andy in News

If you’re in the vicinity of Vancouver Island on August 22nd, come along to the web posse meeting at 6:30pm at Swans in Victoria.

This month Jim Rutherford will be presenting on Adobe Flex and the surrounding technologies.

I had the chance to grab a beer with Jim last week and he gave me an insight into the world of Flex, very interesting stuff.

Here’s the skinny from betterwebposse.com.

See you there!