New For Summer 2011 – SyrupSyrup Launches Version5

Hello once again from SyrupSyrup, where I am back in action after a short break over the year. During this time I have enjoyed working on new projects which has seen new online businesses and hobby sites begin to grow. Importantly I have also begun planning what I hope will be a big part of my future in mobile games and application development, I have already begun to research how I can take what I am learning about smart phone app development and use it in my work at the University, which should hopefully mean that I can focus on creating some cutting edge learning materials for touch screen devices in the coming months.

For SyrupSyrup however I have gone back to the drawing board and have decided that what I wanted most from my site was convenience. I loved the design and colour of SyrupSyrupV4, but the task of adding new items to a static portfolio page everytime I wanted to create something new was very arduous. What I liked most from V4 was the use of WordPress to power the News section, now renamed the Blog. It meant that adding and cataloguing new features was done very quickly using a very nice administration area. And this I decided was what I wanted to develop on moving forward.

I now have a site that runs entirely on the WordPress CMS, and what’s more with its clever design I can seperate content into the correct areas whether it be news articles or portfolio based multimedia items, which all use the same jQuery interactions that I enjoyed experimenting with before.

I believe that community developed content management systems are what is driving people’s use of webspace forward today. When somebody wishes to have their own domain they no longer want to be handheld by a web design company the entire time they own a site, once they are satisfied with a look they want to be able to edit thing’s themselves in an environment they can understand. It is customisable profile sites like Facebook that have shown people what they can achieve with their own space on the web. And services like WordPress, Joomla and Magento are what is pushing these experiences forward.