Away goes the dust…
After another long time of total silence, I've finally got started with cleaning up the site and removing outdated content. Which is basically all the content except for the website templates. Most blog posts will be deleted in a day or two to give room for something new. Perhaps a new attempt at blogging, perhaps just regular posts about templates and themes. I have a number of them piled up for release since a long time, but you have all heard that before so I'll spare you the promises this time. I also hope that I'll get the WordPress themes page sorted out in a similar way as the templates page, because the themes page is still terrible…
Speaking of themes, I have just found out through this post that WP-Andreas01 has reached 25.000 downloads on the official WordPress themes directory, making it the 2nd most downloaded WordPress theme on the site after the Tarski theme. With thousands of bloggers using the theme live today, it is a shame that I don't have any other info about it than the short presentation on the themes page. The template pages update turned out to work really well, so I'll do something similar for the themes.
Another detail is the music pages. I haven't hosted any music on this site in a while, except for the TSEC album "Dreams". The Lagoona collection and all my own songs from way back in time, has been online on an external server but the files have not been linked from here. The plan was to move the songs to a regular music site, but I never found the inspiration to get it done. Instead, I gathered the best of my own material into two albums and published it through a torrent linked from The PirateBay. I'm planning to organize the albums in some better way as well to keep the old tracks alive for those of you who enjoy the old tunes, but when it comes to music today I would rather look forward into the project I have joined this year, the Leeloo Project. I will write more about that during the winter, although probably on the official band site (once it is launched) instead of here.
This site will remain my own hiding place, my "online home" as I once defined it. And I will probably put most of the work into free website templates, with two toes placed in the WordPress community through my theme design. Again, this is easy to write. I don't know how well it will work out in reality, but I know one thing for sure: I will not leave any old stuff floating around. And I will not get any more logo design offers because of the 3 year old logo design request that is just collecting digital dust in the archives…
"This is Andreas, and as far as you know, this will be attempt number seventyfour…"
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Comment from Jason Cole
Time: October 14, 2008, 4:56
You are alive! We were worried about you. You just keep working away, and your followers will follow you in your endeavors.
Comment from Frederick
Time: October 15, 2008, 1:31
I have been looking for a multi-purpose web site template that will allow me to nicely display my content on the web for viewing by large screen resolutions (desktops) as well as on mobile phones — the best of both wolds I guess. So, I was excited about Andreas03 which proposed that it did well on both fronts. However, I ran a test against your live demo on ready.mobi to see how the mobile community though it displayed, and it didn't do so well there…
Any suggestion on my search for a dual displaying web page, or is it not likely to get both these goals in the same site?
Comment from Jason Cole
Time: October 15, 2008, 21:59
Fredrick: you can use Dobbelsteen's Switchy McLayout from A List Apart. It lets you use different style sheets for different sized-windows or screens. You would likely have to get a template adapted for use with that. Andreas03 (although it was updated last April) is quite an old template. Perhaps Daleri Mega or Daleri Structure would work better with that, or the older 1024px.
Comment from Dima Design
Time: October 16, 2008, 8:23
Hi! Whay you do not write in the blog?
You have problems?
Comment from Oliver
Time: October 16, 2008, 13:53
Hey, you´re back. Nice to hear and read.
"Dreams" reminds me of the good old 90s- thank you for this piece of music - good work!
Comment from Mark Olson
Time: October 17, 2008, 18:06
It will be great to see the new Andreas templates ooot and abooot! It was also nice to drop by the sight to read about life in northern Sweden. Two years ago you would almost always have a daily post of something of super interesting to share … and then every so often treat us readers to a template release. I too know what it is like to stay committed to the blogging … it comes in spurts I guess. Well … I hope this next attempt is the one that brings back the Andreas of not that long ago.
Comment from Tobbesanda
Time: October 19, 2008, 0:58
Where are you Andreas? Time to sharpen tour pen again! :)
Comment from Baby bottle storage
Time: October 22, 2008, 21:46
I have Dreams playing now and have been for a while! Let's get something new!
Comment from Donnie
Time: October 23, 2008, 1:29
even if attempt number 100,000,000,074 you still have my support andreas and hope life finds you well and glad to see an update! =)
Comment from Templatemonster templates
Time: October 24, 2008, 8:15
Welcome back Andreas! Hope this is the beginning of a whole new era of creativity! We'll be here with you!
Comment from tom
Time: October 13, 2008, 13:57
Good day.
If I was to install this specific blog and then activate it from my current theme to this one, what would I loose? In other words, How about the Custom additions I did in a Header template for a banner, or the widgets I added on the right etc…?
Thank you again.
Tom