David Slack - Web developer

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Android on my PC!

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Just installed Android on my PC!

Got a few teething problems but I'll get that sorted no probs.

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How good is that!

Mr & Mrs Hey (Gill & Tim)

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Congrats to Tim & Gill on their wedding!

A good day had by all

Not all Virgin phone staff are dumb

I've just been on the phone to Virgin to get some money back cos our TV and broadband was off.

The first guy I spoken to was such a fool! He told me cos we didn't call it in (only emailed, as our phone was off) it wasn't on our account that everything had gone all off so he couldn't reimburse us! I had to spell it out that it is logged on his system that the cabinet was off and that a guy has just been out 2 fix r box so he could work out when we had been off and how long.

Ended up speaking 2 him in baby talk and asking if I was making any sense! Fool!

Alton Towers

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Went to Alton Towers with Su and Adam on Friday and it was Ace!

We should've got the coach at 8am from St Georges Hall in town but because of a cab doing a u-turn and hitting the first one before we got on we had to wait for a second coach (got to stay in the Park longer though Laughing)

Went on all the rides we wanted to including oblivion and we went round the gardens and the Sea life center.

 

Wind in the Willows Child Care

Wind in the Willows Child Care is a website for a number of nurseries under one banner. There are currently 5 nurseries but more could be added any time. This had to be reflected in the website creation and to do it we used roles.

Adams Party

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Just had the party for Adam's birthday. It went really well except I couldn't get the BBQ to light! Embarassed

Thanks to everyone who came, we all had a good day

Rotary Club of Liverpool

This project was the first Drupal 7 site I created commercially and I feel was a success. The client was Bitopea (who provided the design) and I worked with another developer, Ian Gristock.

PHP Fog

Just found out about PHP fog from Ian. It's a cloud based php hosting for php developers. I had Drupal 6 installed in a few clicks!

I've found it supports:

  • SSL
  • SSH
  • GIT
  • MySQL
  • Environment Variables

Not sure about online file management yet cos I've not had a good play with it.

Once they get emails and online file management shared hosting could be a thing of the past...

Drupal 7 - First thoughts

Drupal 7 looks really good, it has everything ready to build a real site. Think we can do the likes of ACT, Vehcam or Wind in the Willows in it as everything for a basic site is in place. I'll start building a tutorial for it soon.

There are a couple of things I can't get to work (yet):

Web fonts in IE

Just been trying to get my CSS3 font working in IE9 so changed it to eof as usual but for some reason it was having none of it! Tried everything in the CSS then had a thought it could be the eof file.

Tried a new generator called Font Squirel and with the same ttf font and it worked!

Thanks Font Squirrel

Drupal theme - Creating the XHTML, CSS layout

For our layout we will simply hand code an XHTML and CSS layout using a text editor. My preferance is Dreamweaver.

Less Framework 4

http://lessframework.com/

I've not tried this yet but I'm looking to have a go on one of my next designs.

"Less Framework is a CSS grid system for designing adaptive web­sites. It contains 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid."

Sounds good

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The box Model from CSS tricks

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Found this site a while ago with really cool info on the Box model http://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/

CSS tricks is a really cool site for most css stuff

Vehcam - Live?

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Loooks like Vehcam has gone live! Good to see it working and hope they do well Smile

Act Maintenance Solutions

This is the second website of work from Bitopia and created with myself and Ian Gristock as developers working together.

29North - Live!

Well that's it, after years of name changing and procrastination we have now gone live with 29North!!

It's not the content type, the name or even the design type we had when we first decided to start our own company but I think it is where both me and Ben Bradley we want to be with it.

So, good luck to 29North and all who sail in her! Cool

Act is go!

So just finished the Act site. This one went just like the Vehcam one so Thanks to Ian Gristock and Bitopea for making it run nice and smooth Smile

Another one sorted! Vehcam

Thats the Vehcam site finished and passed back to Bitopia to go live. Feels good to get it sorted. Now just have to wait for it to go live Cool

Vehcam

Vehcam was a first for me in that I had no access to the client or web design either indirectly or directly. All client liaison was handled by a company called Bitopia then the design passed to myself and the other developer Ian Gristock.

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