Shift8 Creative Graphic Design and Website Development

I love Croogo, it's definitely a very solid CMS. However, I'm not working with CakePHP any more really. So I think it's time I moved on. Fahad has done a wonderful job and I encourage you all to check out his work on Croogo if you get a chance. Especially if you use CakePHP or are looking for an amazing blog to put on a shared hosting account (where something like CakePHP easily runs, opposed to say Lithium because many hosting providers still, grrr, have not updated to PHP 5.3+).

Additionally, I never invested a whole lot into the design. While I wanted to keep my blog simple, clean, and heavily type oriented...Ah...Come on, I'm an SVA grad. I can do a bit better, yes? Haha, yea... So that's reason number two. Not that I couldn't make a new design under Croogo, but while I'm at it...Why not?

Last, I want to have another excuse to work on my CMS, Minerva. It's still in a very early beta state. Though I am using it for some things in production, I wouldn't reccommend that be the case for anyone else. It's fine, it works...But, it's confusing. I will be cleaning that up soon now that I have a more clear vision for it's design. Before, it was just kind of a collection of ideas and various directions. I now have more focus with it. Hopefully with the help of some people, it will be in a good spot soon.

Since I'm perpetually swamped and get involved in too many projects for my own good, this will take some time. So I'm just going to call this a New Year's resolution.

Additionally, I'm hoping to also start posting more of my research on my blog and keep up with blogging. If I can get some more visitors, interest, and even carve out specific time for...Or somehow montenize ?? my blog, then I'll spend more time with it. I hate to throw ads on. I won't really. Period. I'm gonna promote people and companies, definitely...Like my love of Rackspace and MongoLab, but I won't throw ads all over.

Actually, if there's anything you all would like to see more of on my blog...Please be sure to leave some comments about that!