The Loading Speed Issue has been fixed thanks to some helpful people. After my last post one of the Ryans from SimplePie left a comment on the blog pointing to a solution. After trying that and failing, I sent the code I was using to the Newsgroup. The next morning I had a solution from Michael Shipley. After about 30 minutes of rewriting, I had the problem all fixed!

So, if you’re ever looking for an easy excessively easy way to turn RSS feeds into HTML, I highly recommend SimplePie RSS. Easy to use and amazing support.

Speaking of SimplePie, I recently used it on the new Iridium Apparel front page. I set up a blog for them and changed the front page to display the recent posts.

You can see that more and more pages are making the transition to the new design. Once they’re all moved over I actually think I will be doing a little redesigning. This will serve two purposes.

One, I’m not entirely happy with the look of the site. There’s definitely room for improvement. For one thing, it’s too blocky.
Two, I want to get back into my habit of blogging with posts starting to gear more towards mainstream. I’m going to work on broadening the news that I read and in turn broadening the things I post about. Also, I think the musings on life and love have been lacking as well.

I appreciate everyone who’s continued to follow the blog through this dry spell, all one of you =).

Jason