I’ve been getting quite a few emails asking me what I’m doing these days and why I haven’t updated the site. Well, there are numerous reasons as to why, most of them being too personal to mention. But I’ll try and put you in the clear a little bit.

This site is certainly proving to be useful! I have had quite quite a few job offers this month, most of which have been through viewing my site and portfolio. So before I continue, I just want to say thank you all for your support and offering me your projects. It means a lot to me

Alright, I thought I would share 2 of my current projects with you. First is for a company called Finer Ribbon who produce various ribbon materials and products and also have the option to personalize your order. See ww.finerribbon.com for more details. I got asked to create a large flash ad banner for their company along with a payment methods banner for their site. The flash banner is turning out to be a challenge as I haven’t touched flash in quite some time. But the concept is coming along nicely.

Ever since I launched the site, there has been literally hundreds of errors showing up in xhtml validation. I found this strange and frustrating as I do usually code to standards without thinking too much about it. So these errors were really starting to tick me off, not to mention make me look like I n00b when somebody validated my pages. But I found a solution!

It turns out that Wordpress has a built in function that auto adds/removes html tags, particularly paragraph tags, regardless of wether you have WYSIWYG enabled or not. So with a bit of research, I stumbled accross an unofficial plugin that gives you the option to disable auto tagging. And it works like a charm!

The plugin was created by Alex King and is called WP Unformatted. You can download it from this page: