My passions after the love for my family (hand round the bags..) are music and web weaving. I work on something to do with either one at least every day! Those of you familiar with the Realmac Forum will know of my mad postings on the subjects around RapidWeaver, my chosen weaving software. The rest of my work is music related, usually in the audio studio world, occasionally theatre and live work. Session playing, engineering, and even producing complete backing tracks! Great enjoyable work.

Some of you will know I can sometimes be seen at the shows of Derek Acorah in theatres around the UK, behind the sound desk. I have also engineered festivals, and other outdoor and indoor events.

But this blog will mainly be centered on my more recently added passion, weaving. I have been doing this for a few years, but have got far more serious recently. The technology we have available to us is astounding, I just feel it makes it easier than ever to loose touch with what makes an enjoyable, useable site. If we can't see what's going on inside 3 or 4 seconds, and we have done a search, we will return to the search to try somewhere else! People getting creative is fine, but too creative with the navigation in terms of where to find it and how to use it, and no-one will hang around long enough to learn it.

I recently got sent to site where clicking on 'About Us' took me to a page without a single word on it. I thought the site didn't like my favourite browser (Safari) so I tried FireFox. Nope. Just the same. Then I realised the subtle 'blobs' down the outside were links to different things about the company!!!! None of them gave me a clue as to where the webmaster had left their common sense though. Unbelievable. 

I will go more into my feelings on this in the next few posts, and I would love some comments from all you guys on how you feel this does or doesn't work for you!

All the best,

WebKarnage.