So, here it is the new Hypersonicscream.com

What's changed

The site uses an all new PHP 5 framework that I've been developing on and off (mostly off) for the past 18 months. I had some time on my hands last year so started this work, but until now I haven't had the time to add in the last little bits I needed.

There's nothing here

Well, that's because I'm working on it. I do have registration almost working, but don't want to put it live until I'm happy it's working and isn't going to leave a big dangerous hole in my website. Features to come:

• Registration - All new unfortunately, the database from before is gone!
• Profile - Store basic information on yourself
• Contact form - Probably my biggest immediate priority
• Search - I have a search box and I intend to use it
• Tutorials - Hopefully I'll get the chance to write up some tutorials on what I've done here.

There's also a difference in what I've done here over any other site. I've developed a framework without developing the site. What that means is there is a whole lot of code that's completely generic and not site specific. What I've decided to do is release this framework under the GPLv3 Open Source license to help others develop sites with it (hopefully it's good enough).

Layout

I have changed my direction a little for this site. In the past I've spent many days thinking about the way I want it to look, the way I want to lay it out and I've worked on doing that. This time however, I decided that no design I could make would make the site look the way I truly wanted so I would put the template system in my new framework to the test. I chose a design dcarterdesign mainly because of it's clean yet strong layout. I hope you'll agree.