Dan Atrill's blog site
It never hurts to read a manual, an FAQ or a Help page now and again. Whatever you know about a piece of software you’d be surprised what you can find out by going back over some instructions, maybe with a specific task in mind. My task was to create a number of templates for [...]
Thu, August 5 2010 » Web developing, Wordpress » No Comments
I’ve been working with several websites that have upgraded to WordPress 3.o and I’m loving the menu options that you get now. As with every bit of software, what is difficult in one version quickly improves in subsequent versions. I started using Flash when it was at version 3 and though I still use Flash [...]
Sun, July 25 2010 » Web developing, Wordpress, software » No Comments
I got to the Mozilla Add-Ons workshop at the Hub in Kings Cross, London. Great venue, free bar, plenty of friendly developers. I’m not developing Add-Ons at the moment but I am interested in Mozilla’s view that everyone wants a different experience when using the internet. So having Add-Ons that will provide those experiences, whether [...]
Thu, July 1 2010 » Web developing, software, technology » No Comments
I’ve been working hard at building the web development business, first as a freelance and now with my company, DJA Online Services. There’s many ways to get people to find your business: tell all your friends, get business cards made, create a website, spend money on advertising and very importantly go and find people who [...]
Wed, June 2 2010 » Promotion, Web developing » No Comments
This has been reported elsewhere, but it’s useful to bear in mind. ExtJS has a blog entry on how people are confusing the upcoming HTML5 spec with things like CSS3. And they say this is the same confusion that brought the overuse of AJAX and Web2.0 terms. The spec is just a “broad collection of [...]
Fri, May 28 2010 » Web developing, ajax / javascript, technology » No Comments
After this recent recession and the decline in consumer spending, it’s heartening (after a fashion) to see a new technological money spinner in the form of a “3D Ready” television. In the wake of Avatar, Beowulf and Alice In Wonderland at the cinema there will be the inevitable (quietly accepted as the better alternative to [...]
Mon, April 5 2010 » Web developing, technology » No Comments
I’ve been working with Hughes Design developing their new website and it’s finally live at www.hughes-design.co.uk The website has plenty of information on capabilities, the team and previous clients and work. As well as graphic design, branding and website building, Hughes Design are now providing mobile website development. I’m now part of the iPhone Development [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » PHP, Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments
I just made the new website for MJW Office Moves Ltd live and it can be found here: www.mjwofficemoves.co.uk/ The website was designed by Hughes Design and coded by Dan Atrill (DJA)
Mon, March 1 2010 » Web developing » No Comments
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 [...]
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.
Fri, January 22 2010 » Web developing » No Comments
Visit the new Amazon-based store
Visit the new Amazon-based store