I sometimes just sit down and look through my own website for criticism rather than anything else.
My website has become the HUB of everything I do now. You can find out about me, read tutorials by me, find my CV, find photos of my places I've been, my life, family and pets and more, access my university stuff, download and read about my software, here what I have to say and more.
I don't often sit down and review my website but as I've got a chance, I'd like to tell you the truth about some recent events.
As one person knows, the person I know who cares about my website and one of my best friends in life, I considered completely getting rid of all the work on my website and changing my website entirely to Bootstrap, convinced that it was time for a major change.
To me now, the very fact that I was thinking this was even silly. I say this because I now know this website is me. I've built it.
I've had some comments from lecturers, friends and family and lots of others who have said my website is nice. But to me, there is always a need to change it more and more as you will have seen if you come here to view my blog or whatever on a regular basis or something.
The only problem is, whenever I write an article, tutorial or blog post or something, I always get distracted and end up changing something on the site.
I'm trying not to modify my website any more at all - trying to keep it consistent I think is what I'm trying to say.
I'd like to point out that alpha.jamiebalfour.scot, a subsite of this website, is nothing more than a concept - even it's front page explains that I never thought about doing that!
The alpha site never came to be the future of my website. It was overloaded with things I didn't need and it didn't represent me the way my own styled website does.
I am experimenting a slightly new design with the sidebar on my website at the moment.
Instead of the standard white sidebar, I have taken inspiration from one of the websites I built a couple of days ago for a company.
Feedback on that company website has been really powerful - most of which stated they liked dark sidebar and the bright content section. They also said they preferred the left hand sidebar to the right hand sidebar.
All of this got me thinking about my own website design too. So I decided to implement it here too.
For a long time, I have been looking into new ways to improve my website, particularly the desktop website as I really like the mobile and tablet versions of the site (this comes from the fact that they had more skill put into them as I had learned more by then).
My mobile and tablet website stay exactly how they were before - perfect.
If you like or dislike, let me know.
Oh and I will be bringing a new feedback form to my desktop website.
I had been planning a single login system for all for quite some time but now it is finally here!
My single login for all is cross-domain between all of my subsites and both the .com and .co.uk sites. It also works on the blog, so if you are a member of my blog it's easy to login to it now, using the same way you are used to with the standard login page.
