It seems like ages since I was last signed into this site and writing a blog post. Not surprising, after all that has been going on, with e107Advent, client work and traveling…

e107Advent ended on the 20th, no more releases for another year. It has been such a great thing to do, I started December thinking that I wouldn’t be able to release as much stuff as I would of liked. In the end I released something every 2 days. 9 themes and 1 theming guide that I am going to update as much as possible throughout the year. All them releases have racked up just over 1000 downloads, they will all be available all year round for all e107 users to enjoy.

Thanks has to go to Adam Roberts for creating a design for one of the themes. It gave me a much needed break to sort other things out as well as work on some development work, I am currently doing for him. News of which will hopefully follow in the next week or two.

As some of you know I am searching for a job, have been for a while and still am. The last week saw me applying for a few more jobs as well as receiving a few calls from agencies who had found my CV on Monster. I am hoping that I get something early 2008 and start the year off well. So fingers crossed for that.

Now, if your a blogger here is something that you might be interested in… A new community created for bloggers to discuss topics such as marketing, monetization, development and SEO. The community is called Blogussion and has been created by James McDonald (Designer of this blog’s design) and Oliver. Its been very helpful to me already, which is why I will be making a few changes to this blog when I get the chance.

Hopefully I will be able to fit in another post before Christmas Day but if not have a great one and enjoy it.

This is just the first of many posts that will mainly focus on reviewing and advertising other bloggers blogs I personally read frequently.

Before releasing this newly designed Mach2Designs, I didn’t find myself reading blogs that much. Just after I released this new look I was looking around for some interesting blogs to add to my little aggregator at the bottom of the homepage. After visiting a few blogs I came across Jon’s and went through and read each update. Each one well written and well spoken (vblog entries) and more importantly interesting.

Lately Jon has made some great vblogs that just make you laugh out loud, sometimes that’s what you need (a good laugh). He also releases Outakes, one of which he talks about people who vblog that are slow paced, but in this outake guess who is slow paced?

Jon is one of those bloggers that makes you want to come back for more and more, I myself visit his site about 2-3 times a day to check for a new post or vblog.

J0n.org - Jon Wheatley’s Blog

e107Advent has started, for the last month or two I have been working on this project. My main goal was to 1. Make up for my lack of activity this year within the e107 community and 2. get my name well known within the e107 community again.

I have just a few minutes ago released my first e107 theme for about a year and a half. I packaged it up after checking all the files, screenshoted the theme and then put it online. Now I am just promoting it within the e107 community.

I feel slightly disappointed that I didn’t manage to create all 15 themes I had planned but then again I didn’t expect to within the short time frame I gave myself. Hopefully while the days tick by in December I will be releasing and creating more themes to bump up the theme total.

To keep up to date with e107Advent theme releases keep checking this site.

Some other project news soon.