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Site Status Update

Posted by Tim Neill, 27th April, 2008 (8:34 pm).

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Hi all :)

I’ve compiled a list of things that you’ll see is going to change very soon as the site - a to-do list if you like. Since there’s a problem, with no less than three content box themes, and one of them not playing nice with resolutions of 1024 by 768 (seriously does anyone run that anymore?). So, a glassy, plasticky, ‘unified’ theme is going to be applied that renders well and is more attractive even at small resolution! Go legacy support! (if you can call 1024 by 768 legacy…) Anyway, onto the to-do list:

  • Homepage - Unified theme, better welcome message and image
  • Gallery - Unified theme, thumbnails need to be finalised
  • Product Page - Content added, thumbnail size changed, layout and breaks inserted
  • Blog - Blogo moved to correct position, sidebar tweaked (calendar centred, search bar fixed, internet explorer problems squashed, links inserted) and last, but not least the emoticons are hideous. Hello, aliasing! ;)
  • Downloads - Unified theme, layout
  • About - Unified theme, known issues, site map, version history, links
  • Contact - still to be coded, but design is done. Keep an eye out for that one.
  • Help - How to navigate, download things, report bugs, contact me, helpful links
I’ll continue to update and strike out things on this list as they get fixed/completed. Also, Internet Explorer is retarded. Don’t use it. It’s slow, doesn’t render pages properly and makes Matt’s life hell. So unless you have something against Matt, don’t use IE. Just look at how it ‘renders’ the blog page compared to a proper browser!

How the internet should look How the internet looks to most people
Probably a good spot the difference game there, there’s a million little things wrong in IE compared to Firefox and Safari. So whether you’re Mac or PC grab Firefox or Safari. It’s gonna make your life, my life and most importantly Matt’s life a million times better.

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Bringing the creature to life

Posted by Matthew Hilton, 26th April, 2008 (12:01 pm).

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So I know this isn’t really my blog, but what the heck, I thought I’d post on it anyway :P

As the middle of the year is fast approaching I thought I’d better get my ass into gear and get poor Timmy’s site finished. So I’m attempting to do that… If you’ve been checking out the site occasionally, you’ll notice new updates to the Blog as of this morning… You can now comment your life away, the sidebar has been updated, and I’ve also implemented search so you can find the ramblings you wish with the greatest of ease.

We’re also rejigging a couple of things on the main site… There’s a lot that’s half finished at the moment, so hopefully this week we should be able to get some polish happening, and tick some boxes on the “finished” list.

By the way… I’m v. proud of the Gallery hehe… For those of you who are more technically minded, I would like to gloat that the gallery is actually generated using fairly basic content management system that I wrote. Like very basic. But it brings together a few technologies (most of which I still only have a vague knowledge of) which we’ve done at uni, such as:

  • XML
  • XSL (XML Stylesheets)
  • XSLT (XSL Transformations)
  • Javascript
  • PHP

Hehe. It’s my baby :P

Anyways I do believe that’s enough rambling on my part. If you find any technical issues with the blog/site, please let me or Tim know and I’ll fix it up as soon as possible! But overall I’m pretty happy with how the beast is progressing :)

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