I’ve been way too busy to post any­thing sub­stan­tial lately — and here’s why: I would like to present — Clever Starfish!

After nearly 7 years, my part­ner Dave and I have left Perth­Web and have started our own ven­ture, Clever Starfish. Dave’s a Win­dows pro­gram­mer so we have some soft­ware projects planned, and I will be focus­ing on search engine opti­mi­sa­tion and online mar­ket­ing — with a web stan­dards view, of course!

I’d love to get any feed­back about our new site. The design and ini­tial cutup was done by Anton the Lit­tle Tree, and I did the CSS refine­ments, site con­struc­tion and Word­Press inte­gra­tion (the news sec­tion is pow­ered by Word­Press). Dave and I wrote the con­tent together.

It uses ems for almost every­thing (except for a few things in the mast­head), so the font size can be bumped up a few places with­out any­thing too weird occur­ring. Other than that, I’m most proud of the foot­print of the site — while it looks rea­son­ably graph­i­cal, the entire home page is only 23K which means that even on a modem it loads in under 5 seconds.

Of course, there’s always more work to be done on a site — espe­cially a web developer’s own site — but the feed­back I’ve had so far has been good.