Fresh-Out-the-Box!

Word of Twisted Pears and Dancing Trees… Coincidence?

 

New Sony PS-F5 website July 5, 2009

Filed under: Gadgets,Music,Retro,Tech,Web Design — chilsta @ 8:37 pm

Today I launched a website dedicated to my favourite gadget, the Sony PS-F5 portable record player.

Sony PS-F5

Take a look: PS-F5.com

 
 

Jane Davis Jewellery June 20, 2007

Filed under: Internet,Web Design — chilsta @ 6:40 pm

Jane Davis Jewellery

Recently launched website for Epsom based jeweller Jane Davis.

The site uses a custom template which validates for both its XHTML and CSS. The site runs on CMS Made Simple with various modules providing the required functionality.
The main image display is powered by the Flash based Slideshow Pro, managed through its own management interface.

View Jane Davis Jewellery to see it in action.

 
 

Jason Lunn March 14, 2007

Filed under: Art,Photos,urban,Web Design — chilsta @ 11:12 pm

When reality becomes a nightmare
it’s time to live the dream…

A good friend that I’ve known since school has just launched his online photo gallery:

Jason Lunn - Portrait Of A Life
Jason Lunn 2007

You can also check out Chilled Heat – his skateboard brand website, which also has a lot of photos, both taken by and of Jay:

Here’s his MySpace page.

I installed and setup the Significant Others section of Jay’s site, which uses Pixel Post as its engine.

 
 

New Website: Ward and Cross Hair November 17, 2006

Filed under: Mixed bag,Web Design — chilsta @ 6:12 pm

This one’s been live a few weeks now-
Ward & Cross is a hair salon in Ashtead, Surrey. View the website here: Ward and Cross Hair.

The website’s design style was taken from their printed literature. It uses a pure XHTML and CSS structure which complies with the W3C’s standards:

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid CSS!

 
 

John B Consulting

Filed under: Joomla!,Mixed bag,Web Design — chilsta @ 5:28 pm

This website went live today after a month or so in development- it’s based on Joomla! and uses the Community Builder extension so that extra information can be gathered from users who register.

Registration is necessary in order to gain access to example documents and a Powerpoint presentation.

The website is for John Bishop, who provides social care “Needs, costs & quality” consultation for local authorities around Southern, Scotland. View it here: John B Consulting

A rough design and layout was provided by the client which a tableless XHTML & CSS based template was created for which complies with the W3C’s standards:

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid CSS!

 
 

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System January 4, 2006

Filed under: Web Design — chilsta @ 5:57 pm

More a presentation slideshow than a photo slideshow as I first presumed, but looks like it’s not far off being a Powerpoint beater.
It’s simple to use, elegant and well featured.
Add the fact that it’s standards compliant and XHTML/CSS/JS driven and I think it’ll be worth arguing the point of using it for clients.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

I guess the next stage in the progression will be an authoring tool for the content layer that’s a piece of piss to use, so all that’s needed is a good template design and clients can get on with the content creation themselves.

 
 

MAMBOTEAM – Best free Mambo Templates – Mambo Template Design – Home December 7, 2005

Filed under: Joomla! — chilsta @ 1:00 pm

Good set of Joomla templates from MAMBOTEAM.

 
 

Last Mambo in Paris? August 22, 2005

Filed under: Joomla! — chilsta @ 10:43 pm

Netshine recently reported on The Death of Mambo.

This is sad news. Why do people have to be so greedy?

Mambo was a great product that was built on using the principles of the Open Source community. Those principles have been forgotten by its original creator in a way that can only suggest that he has become the victim of greed. May the original fork or Mambo wither and die in a vacuum of corporate greed and selfishness, while the core programmers take their new product on to soaring heights.

(Looks like I’ll be changing the name of this section as soon as a new name has been settled on!)

Edit (24/10/05): Mambo now has a new name: Joomla, and so does this section of F-O-B!

 
 

Rounded Corners with PHP & CSS July 5, 2005

Filed under: Web Design — chilsta @ 9:28 pm

Using PHPcorners

 
 

Imageless Rounded corners

Filed under: Web Design — chilsta @ 9:12 pm

Seems like rounded corners (without having to actually cut the corners off the images) is not too far off…

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