As I’m coming to the end of my M.Arch, I’m ready to start doing design work. I’ve created a new website at http://www.tim-barnes.com which describes my design credentials. Because of this, I’ve moved my business / consulting website to http://www.timbarnes.info — same information, new URL.
I’ve re-instated www.tim-barnes.com
As a tool to learn about Django and Python, I spend the last few days building a new site based on a sort of extended blogging model. It covers my consulting interests, and is completely styled in CSS, with its own RSS feed (which you can access directly here). In the past I’ve written about content management and LAMP – there’s a new generation of web frameworks emerging that have taken a lot of the learning of past systems. Django is one of these. It’s built in Python, which provides a huge variety of built-in classes to support almost anything you might want to do, and it interfaces to a range of relational databases. I’m using SQLite, which is an amazingly small and capable database that requires no configuration at all.The total size of the code for this site is about 250 lines combining templates, database models, and the logic that drives the site. Everything else comes courtesy of the Django developers and the power of Python.
Small website updates
I’ve added a “Blogroll” – this is a standard wordpress feature that puts favourite links in the sidebar. These are just a few of the sites I enjoy. You can find more on the Favourites page (from the links at the top of the screen).
 I’ve also added a set of random images from the gallery at the bottom of the sidebar. Clicking on one will take you to the full sized image in the gallery.
www.tim-barnes.com now points here!
After moving most of the content – and I think everything that’s important, I’ve implemented a forwarder to transfer my old domain – www.tim-barnes.com – to this, my new site.
There’s no longer any reason to visit the old site, and all future updates will be made to this one and my other blog at www.tangramart.com.
Tim