Many of my projects lately have involved custom WordPress themes and I’ve been amazed with the improvements in the platform here in the last year or so. As a result I decided to change my website to 100% WordPress! Hopefully it’ll make it a bit easier to manage and allow me more time to post updates more often.

It’s going to be a process, moving from the old site to the new. Some things will be moving over while other things will come to an end ne’er to be seen again. Hopefully I can update this place to be a better reflection of who I am today, instead of the person I was a few years ago.

So, have a look around but watch your step, it’s hard telling what you might stumble upon.

The church I attend, First Baptist Church of Richmond Indiana is also now podcasting! We finally got a new computer in our sound booth (a 20″ iMac) so now we’re recording the services digitally and releasing the sermon portion of the service online. You can check that out on iTunes as well. I’m really enjoying working on our church’s podcast, not something I get to do often.

For work I’ve been getting into some video-related work as well. We’re adding a component for uploading video that will subsequently be streamed via our video streaming server. It’s something that’s hard to troubleshoot and requires a bit of time but it’s great fun.

Some other great news is that the band I played with a couple of years back, Unseen, is reforming with a slightly altered lineup. This time around we’re playing mostly original music that I’ve written and we’re in the process of writing more. My brother Mitchell is going to be our vocalist so I’m really excited about that. He can sing well and it’ll be great to have a chance to spend more time together.

Starting 2 positions in one year…
In February of this year I accepted a position with a company in the online auction industry. I had six great months with them and created a relationship with my co-worker that I expect to endure for a long time. In August I accepted a contractor position with MemoryX.net where I remain. I’m working on some wonderful things and it has been a real pleasure working there. My design and development skills continue to be pushed to new levels and I’m absolutely loving it. Hopefully I’ll be able to share some of the details of what I’ve been up to at MemoryX soon.

Agee Design
When I’m not doing work for MemoryX I’m doing work for my clients through Agee Design. I’ve completed several projects and I’ve got a handful of active projects, one of which is redesigning the website for Jay and Jack of the well-known “Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack“. They’ve been a real pleasure to work with and I can’t wait to get the new site launched. I’ve also been working on a strategic relationship with another well known name in the podcasting community, Cliff Ravenscraft of the Generally Speaking Production Network (GSPN). And if you’re a Mac user you might be familiar with developer Phil Dow of Sprouted, who is most known for his popular Mac journaling application Journler. I’ve also taken the step of leasing a server so I can offer hosting to my clients if needed.

Rediscovering a passion
Throughout my teen years I had one true passion, playing the guitar. When the college years hit and I was no longer in a hand I lost interest somewhat. I had been playing some, but the 1 hour+ playing time per day was long gone. Here recently I decided to join the hymn band at church. Like me, most of the others in the band hadn’t played in quite a while. I’ve watched over the last couple of months as each musician has dusted off their instrument of choice and rediscovered their love for it. It has been truly inspiring to me. We all, at one time or another, put time into learning these instruments; shouldn’t we take advantage of that talent? I plan to. I’m going to try and establish a regular practice time at least weekly, and try to work on learning some of the technical aspects of music that I’ve never learned. I did recently take a big step and posted a video of myself playing guitar online.

Some EvanAgee.com updates coming
I’ve got a redesign of EvanAgee.com on my todo list. The design is getting a little stale and isn’t quite as indicative of my style or ability as I’d like. I haven’t even started on the design yet but I should soon, might even work on it this weekend. I’m hoping to do a large scale redesign, not just update the template.

It’s hard to believe that another year is almost over. Here’s to hoping that 2008 is as good as 2007 has been. Soon I’ll have some more news to share with you all.

Take a look at the photography section!

I’m considering adding even more features so you don’t have to visit Flickr in order to view details/comments for a photo but I’m not sure whether or not it’s worth it since Flickr has so many great community building tools built right in. But, at least for now you can browse through my photos quickly and easily without leaving this site.

If you’d got any ideas or requests of things you’d like to see integrated feel free to pass them along as a comment and I’ll see what I can do. Does anyone mind having to go to Flickr get more information on a photo?

This is something that I wrote myself and while I’m pretty confident that it’s solid there may still be a glitch here or there. Let me know if you see anything strange!

The new My Music section on EvanAgee.com is a place for me to put my music out there for you to hear. Not only can you visit my website to get the latest songs but I’ll also offering the songs in syndication for the RSS lovers out there (coming soon).

Click here to visit My Music.

Keep checking back as I make updates, and as always let me know what you think!

I’ve also added a new commenting feature so you can tell me and other visitors what you think about a particular movie. Feel free to post your comments, I’ll be checking all of them out.

I’ve added a few new photos in the gallery, but other than that things are pretty much the same.

I’ve also been working on the working demo for PhpDwGallery. Obviously my Photo Gallery is based on the saftware, but the released version is going to be just a little different. I’ve modified the version in my photo gallery to be specifically for this site, and most people won’t want those features. I’m really excited to get it out there so people can start giving me suggestions for improvements.

Be watching for more updates around the site. I’m probably going to be overhauling several of the sections soon.