Ok so I am clearly not a prolific blogger but by way of an update work is keeping me extremely busy with a major rebuild of the football.co.uk front-end to improve the UX and provide a better platform to build on. Largely a lot of clearing of clutter and streamlining to improve the performance combined with a move to a clustered cloud environment.

On a personal note I have been designing a Data Entity diagram for an interactive story site, mostly to test my mySQL but also to explore the possibilities of a Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP (LAMP) based web app. Have been mightily impressed with the new Workbench GUI which makes the process positively enjoyable!

Starting with the data and relationships based on the general project brief is vital. Next step is to run this and some general screens by some users to join the dots and then start the prototype build.