This evening I’ve put version 8 live on slickhouse.com - a theme that has taken several weeks work to put together. You’ll notice a few key differences, the most prominent of which is the extra width - the site now fits to the more common resolution of 1024 x 768.

I’ll be fixing any issues that crop up over the next few days, however I would also appreciate any feedback - what do you really think?

Oh, and if you’re looking for the lounge, it’s in the top-right.

I think that I am starting an obsession with domains. Since purchasing Slickhouse.co.uk and .net, I’ve also bought another two - including Lazlow.net

I was surprised to see (using whois) that Lazlow.net was available and that no domain squatters were occupying it. Within 24 hours, the domain was mine - and 48 hours later I’ve got a page up and running.

For now, it’s an SEO experiment as the site is a single page full of interesting links - 99% of which involve me. Perhaps Google will enjoy crawling the page, especially as it is valid, accessible and semantically correct. In fact, the XHTML/CSS code behind it is my best effort to date. Nothing fancy - just markup that’s clean and degrades well.

Have a go at resizing the page too (ctrl and +/-) to see how every element increases/decreases in size. That’s thanks to using ems for everything, from font-size to margin, height and width.

If I think of a better use for the domain, I’ll let you know - but in the mean time, it’s more of an index to the growing web presence of myself. Think of it as an ego boost?