Posted by Anton at January 14th, 2007

Southernwinejournal.com was a great idea, well implemented, but maybe just at the wrong time. My colleagues Richard W. and Callum M. worked together often in our day jobs, and I thought that we could make something together – a wine blog showcasing Richard’s wine knowlegdge and pithy writing.

We worked hard on it, and created a really great site. Then Richard needed to concentrate on his job, and So did Callum. So its on ice.

Callum taught me a lot about modern web techniques, introduced me to the joys of Blog software and how it can be gracefully subverted to your own ends. I hope I showed him a bit of code, and database design. He certainly did a fantastic job of doing the front end design. It looks classy in a sans-serif modern kinda way, but keeping with the style that wine based merchandising requires.

We talked and worked together a lot, learned a lot, and pizza did get eaten at the office, though I’m not normally one to work late ones.

Richard got us lots of great content to develop with, and I don’t think any of us is at all concerned that it was a waste of time: its ready to be resurrected at the very least.