The URBANE project is a study of urban coastal defences. The website provides information about the project and those involved. The partners page has a Google map linked to an unordered list that acts as dual functionality to view more details on the partners. The overlay effect that I wrote for the partners list is utilised again in the image galleries. The site is built on HTML5 with some subtle use of CSS3. ...
Dr Michael Cunliffe is a fellow at the Marine Biological Association who specialises in Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry. The site has been kept clean and simple with the emphasis on Dr Cunliffe’s work.
The Blue Sound project aims to encourage people in the Plymouth area to use the ‘blue space’ around them. The website aims to involve local youth groups to participate in work groups with myself and the Blue Sound project officer to enable us to provide the users with a site that they can truly feel is theirs. The site uses HTML5 and CSS3, including CSS drop shadows, rounded corners and transitions. ...
I’ve done work on Macs before and always enjoyed it but I’ve managed to get my hands on a MacBook Pro which I’ll be doing lots of my work with. Having read a couple of iPhone developer books I’m very keen to get stuck into a bit of app development and see what I can come up with. The first evening was pretty much spent installing programs and typing into Google “mac short cut for ……” but after a few days of working on it I can highly recommend it. ...
Newquay based Fore Street Deli provides home-cooked deli food using the best Cornish ingredient, and selling a wide range of quality Cornish produce. Working with designer Random Badger the site aims to give a feel for being in the deli with it’s wood background and colour theme based on the shop exterior.
I’ve been working on a site powered by Drupal and needed to find the number of rows a database query returned. Simple enough and quite common procedure. But, the Drupal database API no longer offers the db_num_rows() function. I had a quick Google around and the answered seemed to be to run the query twice but the second time using a count query. Two calls to the database when only one is necessary? ...
I’m really enjoying using CodeIgniter, it’s an excellent framework and has a side benefit of helping to structure your files neatly. I’ve been working on my first login form using it, and whilst there are lots of tutorials going through this common process I encountered a “problem” with the CodeIgniter sessions persisting when the user closed their browser. A bit of searching around and I came up with a few recommendations. ...
my new iPhone arrived today and like everyone I love it. i’m really looking forward to doing some work on mobile css and optimising sites for mobile use. any interesting discoveries will be posted here.
I’ve been playing around with PHP frameworks latley and have just started coding my first major project using CodeIgniter. I’ll post updates as I progress but roughly this project interacts with data from different organisations and acts as a central point for approval of records and the sharing of data.
A lot of the sites we do in work involve using a Google map, some are simple and just allow the user to choose a spot which populates input fields for latitude and longitude. Others contain large data sets and information about the point, which is normally displayed in one of the Google map bubbles. Using our standard library code for implementing a map and allowing the user to pick a latitude / longitude point IE6 was only displaying a grey background with the Google copyright. ...