Posted in Books, Coding by: Alan G
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05 Mar
I just finished reading Designing Without Tables and it was really good. Totally refreshed my mind on CSS.
I mucked around with the samples throughout the book and think that Gennas Jewellery site is probably ok for layout and style. I will probably tweak it a bit – definitely try to do something with the logo [...]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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26 Feb
Developer Day Scotland Agenda has been announced and looks really good.
I went last year and thought it was excellent so was looking forward to this year. Only one clash and one empty slot for my preferred items I voted for so a good result for me.
Right now my plans would be for:
HTML 5: The Language [...]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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02 Aug
Looking at styles for her blog, Genna liked the Green Trilobita theme by Trilobita.
She wanted the palette changed to blues though so I made modifications. I couldn’t see any licence, but assuming it was GPL‘d I’ll put the modifications here.
I changed the following files:
Footer.php
Added text Colours modified by Alan Graham to show I had [...]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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13 Jul
I have spent most of this evening wrestling with the UDM menu on the root of my site. I can get it to import sub-menu items from an external file, but not the main menu items.
So with the menu:
Home – static
Menu Top – static
Sub Menu – loads dynamically
Another – static
Very frustrating. It would mean doing [...]
Posted in Coding, Philosophy by: Alan G
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25 Mar
One of the reasons I have been playing around with Wordpress is because it is Open Source. I have been using various Open Source projects for a while, not zealously, but when they are the best alternative for a given task – or at least good enough for what I do.
Current software I am using [...]
Posted in Coding, Links, Random by: Alan G
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19 Mar
On Wednesday I attended a meeting of Scottish Developers with a talk given by Michael Briggs on SEO.
It was quite interesting. Some of the information I knew already. Some I did not. The stuff I already knew I have put into place on blogs/sites etc. The stuff I learned I plan to prioritise and work [...]