Home Studio v3

After half a year of development and testing, the third edition of Home Studio is finally here! Version 3 brings in a lot of new features such as a (working) portfolio, a shoutbox, on-the-fly translation (for blog posts) and of course a brand new look!

After a painful series of trials and errors, I’m glad the previous version is now finally out of the way. After it’s faithful two years of service, it had become a nightmare to keep up to date due to extensive hacking and customization. The whole thing had started to fall apart, so rather than spending months trying to repair it and keep it all together, I decided to redesign the entire site from scratch.

I spent the first month trying out different ideas in Photoshop. It went from promising to frustrating, then back to promising and finally back to something which resembled my old site’s layout because most of the features were already there – just badly implemented.

WordPress seemed like a natural choice for managing my site’s content.

If I would have done things correctly the first time around, I would have saved myself a lot of trouble. I must have spent a month or two simply going through my posts, tagging everything and adding missing information for SEO purposes. I wanted this new site to be easily accessible and have all the information necessary to be able to find things quickly and easily. I knew the search feature would play a great role in this, not to mention search engines themselves which have been previously blocked from many areas of the site.

If at any point you feel lost, there’s a new sitemap available to help get you back on track. Enjoy your stay and see your around!

Phoenix2k