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Well it is nearly here, time to absue your body with saturated fats and alcohol, then after three days spent on the loo getting rid of all the rich foods and wondering why none of your christmas jeans fit, its time for the new years resolution.

I am already planning ahead and have some great tools I am writing with a WordPress Themer being the major one. It is time with the world now getting shot of IE6 as of Febuary so we can now all start using Alpha channel PNG’s and making some funky CSS tricks. I love CSS and hate IE6 and IE7 a bit as well (damn you support CSS3 corners, even IE8 does not do it), but these are still the industry standards.

As well as this my next trick will be writing more Flash micro games just as something extra to do and another arm on my service offering. I love games and no doubt next year will looking at looking at Microsoft’s XNA game framework and honing my C# skills (Polymorphic Objects, not easy).

So come May next year I will probably be saying the same things but I have bought my nex 19″ TFT monitors, spec’d up my PC and ready to go at it hammer and tongs next year.

I already have a couple of projects ready Pro Avs is in development, Twinkle Twinkle little Bride needs a whole brand and website (Paypal shopping cart) and as well as that a cab firm wants a website. Groovy 2009 bring it on.

Expect more free illustrations and vectors as well as I am now loving doing them, The latest a race horse is pretty damn good,event though the jockey looks a bit bloaty.

Love it, Merry christmas all and have a cracking new year. See you in 2009.

Free Layered PNG file(I say layers I have not really layered it up it is just a load of paths).

I drew this for use on a site as a low res image but it never came to be used so I am offering it free. So crack on and download it.

It was done in Fireworks CS3 so I am unsure how it will render in other packages.

Enjoy any way.

Download the zip file here.

Ahh Forza 2. Blogged on this ages a go and to be fair my xbox 360 time has been waining of late. I put it down to just not being interested but it has all changed lately mainly thanks to my mate Gaz, who kept on about racing online. So one wet afternoon I decided to crack it on give Gaz a call and three hours later we where loving it and talking about setting up a league so www.forza2leagues was bought up and work started on a microsite mini.forza2leagues.co.uk.

Needless to say 3 hours design and build and we have a really nice and simple site build. There is still a lot do but we love it, and so much so two others have joined the league and we will soon be promoting it to the Forza main site once the back end is sorted.

Finally it is here my new site and I got to be honest I have still got to do a a fair bit of work to it before i can deem it as finished. I will imagine by that point I would be bored silly of it and want to change it but for now it fits the purpose.

Looking forward to what next year has got to offer for me so fingers crossed.

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