1. Suggest me some website gallery solutions!

    So, I’m going to be redoing the whole of the (currently awful) Cakeology website partly as an exercise, partly as a potential portfolio piece.

    Does anyone have any links to resources, tips, or other advice, that I might find useful as I hunt down a way to make a nice and easy-to-use gallery for showing off all our cakes? At the moment we use a Wordpress plugin that just pulls stuff in from our Flickr account. This is totally not ideal!

    I’m not afraid of dipping into code to make alterations where necessary, and want something that’s going to work OK on the kind of shitty ancient browser that average housewives tend to use.

    CAN U HALP!?

    1 month ago  /  1 note  /  Comments

  2. I secretly changed the Cakeology website the other day. Mum doesn’t know what I’ve done, which could be slightly interesting… anyway, no, I didn’t make this layout, it’s a fancy Wordpress theme made by someone else. I just implemented it onto the cake site. There are still things I need to fix/alter/tweak/do, but I overdosed on this stuff on Saturday and had to take today ‘off’.

    I secretly changed the Cakeology website the other day. Mum doesn’t know what I’ve done, which could be slightly interesting… anyway, no, I didn’t make this layout, it’s a fancy Wordpress theme made by someone else. I just implemented it onto the cake site.

    There are still things I need to fix/alter/tweak/do, but I overdosed on this stuff on Saturday and had to take today ‘off’.

    7 months ago  /  2 notes  /  Comments

  3. Twitter Over SMS with O2 in the UK →

    Woop woop!

    7 months ago  /  0 notes  /  Comments

  4. There is a special kind of horror

    It is reserved for the moment you discover your mother browsing your vanity photos (courtesy of your Macbook’s iSight and the Photo Booth app) in your Flickr gallery.

    I can’t decide if it’s better or worse that she chuckled and nodded in some strange understanding when I said “But it’s all for Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday! We do that on the internet!”

    Parents + Web2.0. We’re doomed!

    (Thankfully she deleted her Facebook account after she finished her university course.)

    7 months ago  /  6 notes  /  Comments

  5. Today I realised…

    …that I (still) actually quite enjoy coding web pages by hand.

    I don’t miss fiddling around with image-based designs and things like that, though, and I don’t have Photoshop on the Mac right now so it was rather nice to just play around getting used to using Espresso and actually doing the html and css myself for the first time in ages. I’ve become so lazy, you see, using code that other people have written to make things pretty, and barely even dipping a finger into it except to change a colour or a text size here and there.

    It was actually therapeutic to start with a blank screen and type it all out. I must do this more often.

    8 months ago  /  6 notes  /  Comments

  6. The Space Game (on Kongregate) →

    Killing time this warm morning with some asteroid mining.

    9 months ago  /  1 note  /  Comments