Just thought I would say some more about this site and how it is built.

I'm using RapidWeaver, from Brighton based Realmac Software, to make this site. It's such a sweet little application. Very MacOS X. I guess it's designed for Mom & Pop but if you spend all day at work trying to force IE to do something other browsers don't appear to have a problem with then you don't want to do that in the evening as well.

I'm using one of the templates that ships with RapidWeaver at the moment. It's pleasant enough but given some time should be able to get something a little less bright in place. Site templates are nice little MacOS X bundles with all the required files inside. There is normally an XHTML page with placeholder markers, CSS & Javascript files and all the interface graphic files inside the bundle. There is a healthy market for selling themes but I don't think I will have the time.

RapidWeaver is so easy to use and new plug-ins can be built for it so instead of building a site for a client and updating it under contract, it makes much more sense to just provide the client with a theme (and possibly plug-ins) and they can update the content with their own RapidWeaver.

We've had a video podcast of recent additions to the 90 Second Challenge for some time now. In fact the podcast has been running since before Apple released the video iPod linked from the 90 Second Challenge Web site.

It's only since Apple started promoting video podcasts through the iTunes Music Store that subscribers have increased. Since the 90SC podcast was highlighted in the iTMS, iTunes accounts for 62% for all requests to the dshed.net site. From all the content available in dShed, 10 microfilms account for a large proportion of the traffic.

Of course we don't know if the films are actually being watched but it is definitely a distribution method we are interested in taking advantage of in the future.

I thought I would start a personal web site. Having spent so many years building web sites for so many people it seemed odd that I didn't have one. I don't have a particular need for a web site really - just a place to gather pictures of friends & family, store the odd file and record recipes that exist on pieces of paper scattered around the house.

I originally started putting stuff up on www.fourbytwoflat.com but I need to use that for other things soon and wanted to extract as much value from my .mac subscription as possible. I'm in the process of moving personal stuff into this site.