Posted the new design for Backstreetjazzbar.com today. The new look is really slick. Mad props to the designer, Adrian, and to the Wordpress people for designing such a great CMS system. The whole thing runs on top o WP, and our design is just a theme. It works really well, and I can’t wait to start adding more content. We still have to design and upload the secondary level pages. Look for that in about a week’s time.
Finally uploaded the newest changes to LotusRomances.com. Installed SimpleCMS (our wiki based CMS system) with Textile formatting, added some boxes to the front, and fixed up the font page. Actually, the home page loads much faster now that it uses the 3 - column layout instead of millions of tables. It is still full of tables, but those will have to wait for another day, CSS based design takes too long.
Finally launched OCPGroup.cn. This website is actually the culmination of several PHP technologies that I have been toying with. It includes our newly named HMW SimpleCMS software, as well as the HMW Product Management system. I am proud of the fact that we got all 4 languages in there, its a little bit crazy, NO.
Got an email today from an incensed eBay browser. I guess he found my site through google ads. Anyway, he pointed out to me, rather angrily, that what I was calling “Shyrdak Tribal Rugs” were not rugs of the “Shyrdak Tribe”, but rather a Kyrgyz style of carpet called shyrdak. I felt rather sheepish, and responded immediately. I suppose I deserve it. Imagine surfing the web and finding someone selling records from the “Hip-Hop Tribe” of North America. I’m an idiot…
Today we launched the phase 1 site for Backstreet Jazz Bar and Restaurant. It is the first public page that I have designed by myself, and I think its not too bad, if I do say so myself. It could be better, but that is what phase 2 is for. It is mostly run by WordPress in the backround as a CMS.