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About a year ago, I went to Stockholm to attend the release party for the first Tjuvlyssnat.se book. It was an interesting trip where I met a lot of interesting people and had lots of fun. The trip provided me with a good amount of inspiration for my work with the Tjuvlyssnat network of sites and it gave year 2007 a flying start. Now it is time for another trip, once again with a blogger meeting as the main event although this time the host is the Swedish telecommunications company Telia and the topic is music and entertainment!

Like last year, I will bring my laptop and write a post from the event, but the trip will add a few more days of delays to the site update. I wasn't brave enough to make all the changes on the live site as I wrote in the previous post, so I ended up working on a private development site after all. As expected and as I mentioned in my previous post, I spend a lot more time on experimenting and testing different things when I work against a development site. Getting the job done takes much longer. However, it should also makes the end result a bit better. I am really happy with the new structure as it looks so far. With the trip coming up with very short notice I will lose two work days, but in return I will hopefully find a lot of fresh inspiration and a number of new ideas for the blog and for my designs…

Updated templates

If you want to see a preview of my updated website templates (XHTML/CSS only, no CMS-specific versions) you are very welcome to download this preview package. It contains seven updated templates: andreas00-05 and 1024px. It is not the final releases, I still need to run my regular quality checks on each template (validation, speed, browser compability, accessibility, spelling, links etc.) and re-format the CSS since it is currently written in the compact way that I like it rather than having each value on its own line which is makes the stylesheet easier to read and edit. The rest of the templates will be added to the file as the templates are updated. The final release will be made once all templates are updated and found to be OK. As promised, I will also release a number of new templates, including a universal Daleri template with the design from my own site and from the Daleri Selection theme for WordPress. Expect a preview of the Daleri template soon, I'm working on the last layout variation for it now and I may possibly be able to finish it in Stockholm.

Takeoff is five hours away now. I'm going to catch a few hours of sleep, hopefully waking up to a will become a short but interesting trip…