Archive for March, 2008

Playing with Drupal

Leo and I have been playing around with the WorkConnexions website and decided to go down the route of trying out Drupal. We tried out Elgg first, but even though it did have some functionality we were after, there’s still too much development left to be done on the product.
So we decided to go […]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Strive Notes: Another WordPress blog

Just finished putting together an overhaul of StrivePR’s blog: Strive Notes. It’s build on WordPress v2.5 with an elegant theme that leaves a lot of real estate for widgets and other flair. I’m pretty impressed with the new version of WordPress, my favourite feature being the ability to upgrade plugins at the touch of a […]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Revisiting Chauffeur Drive

I just popped around Chauffeur Drive, a website I had built for a friend of mine some time ago. It’s still looking great, and it’s nice to see a website stand the test of time. The thing I like best about it is the use of FAlbum, a WordPress plugin that lets you integrate your […]

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Backgrounds from Digital Blasphemy

Ms Kat asked me recently where i got my laptop backgrounds from, so I thought I’d share this treasure trove on my blog. It’s a website called Digital Blasphemy that is the showcase for Ryan Bliss‘ work. He’s an amazing artist working with digital media, creating images using 3D tools like Poser and Bryce. He […]

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

BlueHost

I’ve finally got around to using GoDaddy. That’s not quite fair though, as what I’ve used with GoDaddy is a virtual hosting account which gives you full control over your OS. It all depends what sort of website you’re after really.
It’s funny, how a few years ago I thought I could run my own hosting. […]

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Woes with .htaccess

I learnt an important thing yesterday, while working on the WorkConnexions corporate website. Apache uses a file called .htaccess that lets you configure folder level permissions for your website. It’s not really the best way to set up this configuration, but if you are using shared hosting, then it’s your only option. Anyway, I set […]

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

A touch of animation

I’ve been putting together a corporate website for WorkConnexions and once again have been using WordPress as the engine behind it. This time it’s the spanking new v2.5, running it through it’s pacing but on a LAMP environment. I particuarly like the theme I used thanks to some animation that’s used in the sidebars and […]

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Casino Launch Pad

Are you looking for an online casino where to have some fun? There’s a whole selection of them around the web, so my advice would be to first read up on some of them. One website that has a number of reviews for different casinos is the Casino Launch Pad. It has some of the […]

Friday, March 21st, 2008

WordPress 2.5

Ohh .. I’ve updated this blog to WordPress 2.5 and I must say, it looks mighty fine! The administration UI has been improved by an order of magnitude and there are so many new features it almost gives me a rush! (Chuckle, I need to stop speaking about computers like this, or I may end […]

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

This blog

Hmm, considering this is my hobby blog, I think it’s time to give it a revamp and improve on it’s looks. The sidebars are too small, the heading it not obvious and traffic to the blog can surely be improved. And I’ll need to focus on some more interesting content. Without decent content, a blog […]

Saturday, March 15th, 2008