I stated in my last post I was going to redo my website in more detail. I’m trying to follow the direction setforth by Kelly Goto’s book “Web Redesign 2.0″ - which is a great book by the way.

I’ve gotten so far as to trying to layout and simplify the structure of the content I want to present. I’m not entirely sure of what content a personal site such as mine should portray, but I’m trying to build ChrisEsler.com  and Dibolmi.com as my respective brands. ChrisEsler.com is going to push mostly my online skills for developing websites and user interfaces with various web technologies such as Ajax, PHP, Databases (MySQL and Postgres). Dibolmi.com is going to be more centered on my print design skills - where book design is my primary focus, although thats not all I do.

My web framework/content management system called Landscape is going through a major rehaul. I’ve rewritten a lot of it to be more object oriented. The plugin architecture is far easier to implement as well as custom tags. I’m even working on making database calls directly from the template itself that can be parsed directly into the template without having to write php code by building a template tag right in the system. So far the template parser is wicked fast compared to before - but its pretty barebones right now. There is still things to do, such as rebuilding the URL rewrite and interpretation mechanism. I’ve also figured out a way to dynamically generate keywords for the page based on parsed content. However, this functionality eats some processing time so I need to figure out a way to cache output.

Things are good on the book design front. I’m working on the April-August 2007 market and trade books for my primary publisher. Going to be a busy weekend on top of finishing a ecommerce site I’m implementing with Joomla.

Thats the quick update. I will probably setup the new system once I get the template system to more polished state.