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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Tags: BBC, browser, IE6, internet, security, upgrade
Tue, February 2 2010 » Web developing » 2 Comments
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.

Coding and development by Dan Atrill, design by Hughes Design.
Tags: cms, construction, maylim, PHP, website
Fri, January 22 2010 » Web developing » No Comments
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
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

Take a listen and pass on some Christmas cheer!
Tags: christmas, frosty, jim beam, london, spring park motel
Sun, December 20 2009 » Other » No Comments
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:

Tags: freelance, london, PHP, web developer
Sat, December 19 2009 » Web developing » No Comments
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.
Tags: commands, MySQL, sys admin
Wed, December 16 2009 » MySQL » No Comments

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.
Tags: PHP, trinity, trinity pr, web development
Thu, November 19 2009 » Web developing » No Comments
Phase one of a new website for London based Crewd Recordings goes live today.

You can find it at www.crewd.co.uk
Watch out for further developments very soon.
Tags: crewd, crewd recordings, PHP, web development, wordpress
Thu, November 5 2009 » Web developing » No Comments
A new site for AJ&L Electrics goes live today at www.ajlelectrics.co.uk. Designed by Hughes Design.

Check it out.
Tags: hughes design, PHP, web development
Fri, October 16 2009 » Web developing » No Comments
A new website for Acupuncture and Shiatsu practitioner Fiona Hurlock has just gone live at www.fionahurlock.com.
Built and designed by Hughes Design, I was asked to assist with some menus on the treatment page.

The menus were quickly implemented using scriptaculous and css so that the menu element changed colour on hover and the arrow to the left changed to a down arrow when clicked using update(). The text “appears” using the Effect object and is hidden using the hide() function again when other menu items are selected. A speedy solution to getting the site live.
Tags: ajax, hughes design, PHP, scriptaculous, web development
Thu, June 25 2009 » PHP, Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments