Its been a while...

Well its been a while since I have written a post. I have been quite busy trying to create a new website layout I'm happy with for my business.

I recently purchased a book, "How To Be A WordPress Rockstar", which is about working with and creating WordPress based websites. It is a very good read, and goes in depth with everything you will need to know to get you started into just about any WordPress based website. For anyone who doesn't know what WordPress is, it is a CMS (content management system), which basically means that the website can be updated without any scripting knowledge. They are great websites to build.

I prefer to used a CMS known as Drupal, which is great for most websites, but there comes a time when I may need to use WordPress, as its become the most popular CMS being used. But it is more of a Blogging system than anything, but still gets used as a CMS as it does act like a CMS quite a bit.

There is also Joomla, which I'm not the biggest fan of, but am feeling that I may need to learn to use that CMS as well, but thats last on my list for the time being.

I am also trying to learn a new eCommerce based system known as Magento, which is becoming very popular very fast. Its feature rich and has everything you need from the word go to run an online store.

Anyway this is becoming too much of a geeky post, so I'll stop there because you probably have already stopped reading. I will post some more interesting blogs soon.

Yours in blog,

Jaymie Jones

New Macbook Pro Arrived

Hi all,

Its been a very busy couple of days. My new Macbook Pro arrived on Monday just after lunch. So I was quickly on my way home as soon as it was time to knockoff. Had dinner, then decided to un-box and backup files from my old Macbook Pro and transfer them onto my NEW Macbook Pro.

It took me from about 730pm till approx 130pm as I didnt have any firewire 800 cables, so I had to backup to my external hard drive then transfer back onto my new macbook pro.

Apple has taken care with its new design with the packaging and the machine itself. Focusing on being environmentally friendly, nearly every part of the machine plus its packing is high on the environmentally friendly items list, gaining the highly sort after EPA Gold label.

I tested it out at work today and it went amazing, truly a dream. Even using the better battery life graphics card all graphic work went with ease and was not glitchy or slow. Cannot wait to test in performance mode.

Also another surprise was the inclusion of the new iLife 09 package, which has some amazing enhancements to the entire bundle of applications, especially iMovie and garageband. In garageband you can even learn the guitar in a way which can only be explained by saying, its like you really have someone there teaching you.

This is the end of my post for the night, not enough sleep over the past few nights, so I leave you with some shots of my new Macbook Pro.








Yours in blog,

Jaymie Jones

Macbook Pro Coming

Well I have finally gone and done it, ordered my new Macbook Pro, cannot wait, will be a massive upgrade from my current Macbook Pro. Tons of new useful features, an overall better looking design and a much stronger design.




For all the other geeks out there these are the additions:
Ram: 4gig
HDD: 320gig @ 7200 rpm
Additional Cables: mini dvi to dvi, mini dvi to vga.

Its just been shipped, and lucky me the arrival date has changed from the 11th to the 9th.

Will write a post about the new machine once I get it. Not going to be fun transferring all my work files and personal files over though.