I've been busy on a few other sites recently.

I took the decision to start splitting out the information on Award Sounds into more specific sites.

alancward.co.uk features my photography and I'll continue to post photography-related articles over at that site from now on. I'm just building up that site now, so it may be a bit sparse this week.

Some of my other activities have led me to produce a Proof-of-Concept for another project. It's called Awesome Amps and has proven how quickly I can get a multi-site Drupal installation up and running.

The Concept

The idea started as part of the gift ideas for guitarists series. I was thinking of money-is-no-object amplifiers. As well as that, it fits with the activities over at Earn More Than Before.

It's odd what you don't notice when looking at the detail.

I used to check my site stats every couple of days. I knew this wouldn't continue, but I've had some fun trying to guess what readers were actually searching for, despite the search terms entered.

Part of the reason I wanted to move away from looking at them so often is that I quickly lost sight of what brought readers to this site. I could see from day to day, but not what counts over a few months.

It's been a while coming. I was waiting for some modules to become available before this site was upgraded.

I've been excited by what I've seen in Drupal 6 for some time now, especially having triggers built into the core system. That could be very useful.

Most of the site works now, there are a couple of issues that would have needed to have been fixed for other reasons anyway (e.. RSS subscriptions via Feedburner since it's moving to Google Feeds).

Here's an intro to the most popular articles at Award Sounds. I'm surprised by some of them and happy to see others.

Follow this link: Most popular articles at Award Sounds.

Thought I'd start a blog on this site. There are a few blog articles already, but that's just because of how I was using the site before I figured out what I wanted to do with it.

These posts won't always be published to the front page. Depends if I think it's relevant to the site at large.

Award Sounds announce the launch of the Audio Cloth store.

Audio Cloth specialises in audio and music-related related clothing and accessories. It is currently a CafePress store, but will expand to other outlets to accommodate designs, materials and markets.

Cafepress now has local sites showing pricing for US, UK and Canada.

I like it when something just works, but I always feel a bit ambivalent when I can't really notice it working.

The Kit

In this case, I've just been using the Radial Engineering Reamping Kit. It consists of two main components (the J48 active phantom DI and the X-Amp amp driver) plus a power supply for the X-amp and a plastic box to hold it all in.

Plugging In for Re-Amping

This site's been quiet for the last 4 weeks, mainly because I've been on honeymoon. Well, totally because I've been on honeymoon. I took a conscious decision to not write and just enjoy the time instead. I'll step back up the writing over the next few weeks to get to the original one of two articles per week.