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New website for MJW

I just made the new website for MJW Office Moves Ltd live and it can be found here: www.mjwofficemoves.co.uk/

MJW Office Moves

The website was designed by Hughes Design and coded by Dan Atrill (DJA)

Mon, March 1 2010 » Web developing » No Comments

Beer Wars

Believe me, this is relevant, and one day I’ll post the link to the website, in the meantime, watch this trailer:

More info at: http://beerwarsmovie.com/ – sadly not available to download the whole thing in the UK yet.

(Thanks to Stephen Fry for his Tweet about the this)

Fri, February 19 2010 » Off-Topic » No Comments

Petition to phase out IE6

According to BBC news ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8492862.stm ), there’s a petition been launched calling for the phasing out of Internet Explorer 6 as a web browser. This has been a raging debate for some time, and as the petition reportedly states, the browser which was launched in 2001, “… IE6 has security flaws and uses outdated technology, creating a burden for developers…”

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Web developing » 2 Comments

New website launch for Maylim Ltd

The new website for construction company, Maylim Ltd, is now live at www.maylim.co.uk. Built on a CMS structure it will have easily updatable sections for projects.

Maylim Ltd's website

Coding and development by Dan Atrill, design by Hughes Design.

Fri, January 22 2010 » Web developing » No Comments

Lightview not functioning

I’ve used Lightview several times now and most times it’s worked straight away. This time I had a few issues. First off, the script files didn’t live in the usual place on the website, so I had to make sure I targeted them correctly so that effects.js, part of the scriptaculous / prototype library was active. It’s easy enough to test that a file is loading using Firebug in Firefox or the new Developer tools in Safari.

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Wed, January 13 2010 » Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

A merry Christmas song from Spring Park Motel

Spring Park Motel, everyone’s favourite band around London, have released a Christmas song called Frosty, Me & Jim Beam which is available now from soundcloud.com

Frosty Me & Jim Beam by Spring Park Motel

Take a listen and pass on some Christmas cheer!

Sun, December 20 2009 » Other » No Comments

New portfolio site

I’ll be full-time freelancing in January 2010 so needed to update the CV / portfolio. As most of the work will be freelance I though it would be better to create a website that showed off some of the work I’ve done over the last 10 years. (I’ve been creating websites for longer than that but nobody wants to see a screengrab of a very old intranet site)

So the new site is at http://dan.atrill.co.uk and looks like this:

Dan Atrill's portfolio website

Sat, December 19 2009 » Web developing » No Comments

MySQL Commands in brief

I was hunting for a few easy to follow commands for command line MySQL having been using Webmin and phpmyadmin for a while now. This site http://www.pantz.org/software/mysql/mysqlcommands.html came up trumps. Lots of other useful sysadmin stuff on there. Thanks pantz, you saved me hours.

Wed, December 16 2009 » MySQL » No Comments

New website for Trinity PR

Trinity PR website
A new version of Trinity PR’s website has gone live today at: www.trinitypr.co.uk with PHP and CSS by Dan Atrill, design by Hughes Design.

Thu, November 19 2009 » Web developing » No Comments

New website – phase one

Phase one of a new website for London based Crewd Recordings goes live today.

Crewd Recordings website

You can find it at www.crewd.co.uk
Watch out for further developments very soon.

Thu, November 5 2009 » Web developing » No Comments