Our company site gets another tweak! We've improved our portfolio with larger images and testimonials, re-worked the front page and lots of content, removed the news posts and some old irrelevant book pages on hosting & support and introduced a FAQ for new or potential clients. Hopefully we've made our site clearer and cleaner. Leaner. Meaner. Fighting machiner.

We're holding off on updating the site to Drupal 6 until we're happy with some key modules like Views, Link and XML Sitemap. That site or this one will probably be our first upgrade to 6.x, but for now we're keeping our eye on the list of contributed module's status for 6.x support on groups.drupal.org and helping out where we can.

A moment of panic, yesterday. "#home_and_garden virgin animal horse cat at leafish.com". Luckily, its all resolved now (a minor oversight on the domain's registrar's part), so I can laugh.

Ha. Ha ha. Ha. Sigh.

After several server related headaches over the last couple of weeks, Dylan and I were rather miffed to say the least when several of our sites went off-line this weekend due to a rather massive cock-up at one of the domain registrars we use, 123-Reg.

The Register reported on the problems.

Almost done: this is Drupal 5. Also, everything seems to have gone a bit blue and green. Must be something to do with that tree. The last theme was some-what iffy in IE anyway and hey, someone once told me that change is good.

I've got a couple of things left to fix, but I hope you like the new look. Comments containing references to any Web greater than version 2.0 will be deleted.

To celebrate the new year, we've bought ourselves a shiny new dedicated server to handle our customers' sites. We can now provide more disk space, bandwidth, features, and processing power to all of our customers at no extra charge!

Some details on our new server can be found on the Network Status page.

We've finally finished the revamped Leafish site, which in the end became quite an overhaul. There's a new theme which has reduced lots of clutter, and looks a damn sight nicer.

We've also had a massive rejiggle of just about all of the content on the site too. Personal blogs have gone, and there's more emphasis now on our expertise and services as opposed to the occasional news posts that customers possibly wouldn't be interested in anyway. We've rethought our hosting too, simplifying the sign up and leaving the e-commerce module out in the cold... for the time being.

I hope you like it - let me or the team know if anything looks out of place, broken or if you have any comments or suggestions. Cheers!

Phew. Been crazy busy: as well as juggling a full-time job as stockroom gimp/returns controller at HMV, I've dived head first into learning the fantastic Drupal which is the engine the site you're viewing now is based on. I must say, I'm well impressed.

I'm also still working on these emailable brochures for free2mail. Having lots of fun with Flash and XML/XSLT: its been fun learning it all. XSLT is pretty darn powerful really: turning an XML data file into a XHTML file serving a Flash SWF with no actual coding, anyone? Anyway, looking forward to improving the brochure stuff as the core stuff is at a good point now to build on properly, adding features such as XML-defined sound (ambient loops and random hits to create a varying background sound), new generic templates, auto-generated HTML versions and tracking the brochures.

some links for youse

• A List Apart - great articles on CSS and other web stuff