My various websites have long been in need of a redesign - I've been a GoLive user since it was called CyberStudio, and I stuck with it - and design using tables - for as long as I possibly could. But after a while you get pulled along with advancing technology whether you like it or not - even if it's just because the old things stop working.

After many trials of various web-design packages, I've settled back with Adobe, and Dreamweaver. I'm not a 100% coder, but also I need more than just design by WYSWYG - I use PHP and MySQL, but am not an advanced user (I coded this blog from scratch - with occasional help from my cleverer brother).

So I've practiced on a couple of my other pages, getting the hang of CSS and responsive designs, and am now ready to start tackling this one. For now, it's just the blog page, but over the next couple of months I'll gradually update everything (it may take a while - work is particularly busy at the moment).

In the meantime, and to justify this test blog post, here's an illustration/poster I completed a couple of months ago.