May status of linusbohman.se

It is the end of May, and this site has been a work in progress for five months, give or take a few days. And I’m pleased to announce that it’s f-i-n-a-l-l-y nearing the end of it’s development process! The reason it takes me such a long time to create this site is twofold:

1. Next to work, writing my final thesis and personal projects I don’t have all that much time.
2. Building for yourself is the hardest thing you can do. You never manage to please yourself. If I had a client that acted like me, I’d kick his head in.

I’ve learnt a ton developing this site, and already know about a lot of things I want to do better in the next version – which I’m probably going to start working on right after finishing this one. Heh. Still, here’s a list of things to fix before linusbohman.se v1 is officially live:

• With more content the ideas and inspiration section will be hard to browse. When that happens, I’ll present the posts by category.
• The “previous” and “next” links are hard to see and find.
• The resource-section is impossible to overlook and has a bunch of strange characters in it. Fix.
• Style up the resource section.
• The site is totally iffed in IE6. Don’t know if I’m going to bother make adjustments for such a buggy browser.
• Add a small hand-written welcome note to the right of “Linus Bohman, creative communicator”.
• See if the sidebar can be jazzed up a bit.
• Fill up the portfolio with a selection of works.
• Publish more of that which inspires me. I’ve got ton of books and printed material as well as sites, videos, physical places and other stuff.

I love seeing this site grow. Let me know what you think of it. Don’t skip on the criticism – I’ve got a thick skin. It’s one of the best ways to improve.