New website for MJW

The Boss — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:28:06 +0000

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)

Beer Wars

The Boss — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:56:56 +0000

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)

Petition to phase out IE6

Dan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:05:28 +0000

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…”

With Microsoft Updates the issue of updating to IE8 has been pushed for sometime. There’s also pressure for users of other browsers to upgrade to newer versions where bugs and security issues have been dealt with such as PushUpTheWeb.com who are encouraging the use of code in the websites to identify users of older browsers whether it’s IE, Firefox, Safari or Opera and IE6NoMore in the US

But in addition to security, there is also the strain on developers to test across more browsers. Developing for one then testing on the others is a useful approach. I know that if I create something for Firefox and Safari it’ll work the same in both browsers, on Mac or PC, then there’s the issue of non-standards web browsers (IE) which have quirks which have to be dealt with. Removing IE6 from the equation.

Out of interest, looking at the stats for this site, 52% of users visited with Firefox, 25% with Safari and only 13% with IE (of which the majority used IE8).

New website launch for Maylim Ltd

Dan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:46:59 +0000

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.

Lightview not functioning

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:58:16 +0000

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.

So the script files loaded OK, but clicking on the link for my first gallery image just gave me one picture in a new window. Two things, first I didn’t get the usual Lightview display (transparent background with white frame and rounded corners) as expected. This is solved by making sure that in the lightview.js file the reference to the Lightview images are relative to the script file, in most cases this is as easy as setting images: ‘images/’, around line 41, where images is a folder in the same level as lightview.js

The other issue was with showing a number of images in a gallery but without showing links to every image in the page. Sometimes showing links to all is useful for starting off part way through a set of images. However using just one “Gallery” link you can still show all the images by putting the first image reference in the Gallery link, then hiding all subsequent image links, thus:

Gallery

Image #2
Image #3
Image #4

There is further discussion on this in the forum here: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=111

Now everything is working correctly you should get something like this:

For more information on Lightview visit: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/

A merry Christmas song from Spring Park Motel

Dan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:30:45 +0000

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!

New portfolio site

Dan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:22:03 +0000

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:

MySQL Commands in brief

Dan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:06:52 +0000

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.

New website for Trinity PR

Dan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:59:02 +0000

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.

New website – phase one

Dan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:52:59 +0000

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.

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