(A) Live!

It only took 6 months of painful development, planning, testing, etc; I’m only 3 months overdue, but it’s done, and both my new site and I are still alive!

First a note on the name. This site is shared between two domains, cor and cortjezter.com. Obviously one is my legal name, the other is my online personality and ‘brand’ so to speak. Since millions of people have come to know this brand name, it’s only fair to play into it a bit 🙂

The main hurdle was wrestling WordPress, in all of its MySQL database-driven, php templated glory. HTML and CSS I know, but these new web technologies are anything but designer friendly. I’ll spare everyone the boring geek-speak and just say I’m glad it’s over…for now.

So what’s new? Obviously, instead of a static, HTML-based site, it’s fully running WordPress, except with a custom theme, customised database-driven gallery, and lots of other little features sprinkled throughout, such as a comment system for any of my posts. TONS of new content has been added (and some older stuff removed) to the gallery, and organised in a more visual way.

*Note that you can continue clicking an image to enlarge it–so there’s a thumbnail, then a larger view, then a presentation frame, then the raw graphic file. Many of the images are quite large; mainly because a lot of effort goes into the details of an image, and small web graphics aren’t the best at sharing that.

So what is yet to come? I love black and red as a colour combination, which is why the first and default theme is what it is. In the future, I plan to have several themes and colour schemes to choose from, in case you’re in a sunnier mood than blood red and ’emo’ black. I have also not populated the “personal” section yet, mainly because I’ve focused on delivering the content people are most interested in, which generally doesn’t include me personally 😛 Of course additional art will be added to the gallery as time goes on; some things are business-confidential for a couple more weeks. Also, I’m sure a few bugs will be identified and need squashing, so if you happen across something, send me an email or leave a comment!

That’s all for now… working on a few reviews of things I’ve bought lately, including one of the new flagship Pioneer Elite receivers, my PS3, and a few games. Of course they’ll be posted as soon as they’re done, so stay tuned. Be sure to leave a comment with any feedback or stalker love!