The new layout for the site is almost finished – I just need to finish the CSS and mess about with some new plugins.

I realised how rusty my coding is at the moment because a few days ago I tried for about an hour just to change the colour of the links, and the CSS file is pretty big for the new layout (and I’m thinking I might have to have another separate one just for the sidebar) so I was thinking I was changing the wrong line or something. I was going mental wondering what was going on…and then looked at the site when I was at work and noticed the CSS was fine – my cache obviously needs clearing at home. I’m such an idiot.

At the moment I’ve given myself the deadline of 1st March to get everything done. I’ve set aside most of the next two weekends to get on with it. Obviously most pages at this stage will stay the same…but I’ve made new drafts of lots of currently rubbish pages, the menu will be rearranged and with new sections, there’ll be new pages and of course a new layout. There will also be some pages deleted. I’m intending to aim this site more at slightly older people with a focus on creative things like tutorials, articles etc. I am still keeping the ‘younger’ stuff like dollmakers though, and quizzes generally keep a range of people interested. So it’s going to be a mix of creative and learning and general random fun stuff.

I’m also looking for affiliates/link exchanges to be permanently linked on the homepage, so if you’re interested drop me a comment.

As far as personal stuff goes…Valentine’s Day was lovely, we spent it in Bath and there was lots of interesting stuff to see and do and buy there, including lovely handmade fudge and Italian ice cream.

Last night I began watching Gosford Park (does anyone else find keeping track of 30 characters confusing?) and fell asleep at about 7pm. I didn’t wake up until 10:45pm and then couldn’t sleep until 2am. Sigh. So today I’m pretty tired, and I have to wait until Friday to catch up on sleep.

I’m going to buy new clothes after payday as my shoes and coat are falling apart. I’m trying to save money for next month though – it’s Joe’s birthday, a couple of my friends’, my sister’s 18th and Mother’s Day. March and April are always expensive present buying months for me.

I cashed in my review points a couple of days back to get a 500GB hard drive from Amazon. I can transfer all my laptop data to it and hopefully free up space from the almost full drives. I’m also planning to pass my old laptop on to my dad at some point. Though it is incredibly useful having two whilst doing webdesign and video editing because one has Vista and a small screen, and one has XP and a wide screen, so it’s useful to get around XP/Vista restrictions and view things in different sizes.

Right now we’re off to have lunch and then take a walk to the nearby garden centre (I suggested it for a bit of fresh air and exercise, I don’t like being stuck behind my desk all day). Unfortunately it means less time to spend working on the site. I usually do it through lunchtime because FTP refuses to work with my mobile internet, and last night the internet refused to work at all. I hope it’s fine when I get home tonight otherwise I’m going to get really behind…