kiriscosmetics.co.uk website design

After the success of the x-pertees.com website I was approached by an eBay seller to create an online store to sell her cosmetics products without having to pay eBay commision.  I used Cube Cart again to create this site.

Link and Screenshot of Kiriscosmetics.co.uk

http://www.kiriscosmetics.co.uk

The client wanted ‘Pink Girly’ colours and was extremely pleased with the end result.

The images for this site were produced using The GIMP rather than Photoshop which is what I would normally use, It is an amazingly powerful application for its small size of around 16mb. Definitely worth the download.

Redesign of x-pertees.com

The site had been lost by the owner (he didn’t renew his hosting and lost all of the files) so I had to quickly create a new store, upload all of his products and then customise it slightly. I’m quite pleased with the result and all of the back-end store system seems to be working fine.

This is a screenshot of x-pertees.com

http://www.x-pertees.com/

This website is for a company that specialises in custom T-Shirt designs, they work the festival circuits providing a while you wait service but also have quite a lot of business coming in from the web, with orders sizes ranging from single unique pieces to runs in the hundreds.

I used a free PHP based cart software called CubeCart which seems to be quite popular and was quite easy to set up, I’ve had no problems customising it to meet my needs and the client is happy with the administrator section of the site. I will probably revisit this site in a short while and redesign the front end as it is still basically the same as the standard install.

The site http://www.sthelenswindows.com is now Live.

I have just uploaded and redirected my latest site.

http://www.sthelenswindows.com

Screenshot of StHelensWindows.com

It is PHP based, using CSS for layout and I rather like it.  I went through quite a few designs before my boss settled on this one. I have also just finished developing

http://www.synsealwindowsandconservatories.co.uk

Screenshot of http://www.synsealwindowsandconservatories.co.uk

Which is a PHP application that is linked to a MySQL database, to be used by smaller traders and fitters to keep track of customer and job records. This online application was designed and created totally from scratch.

Microsoft Word Images with white background printing with grey background

I recently added an image file that I had just created to a word document, everything looked fine on screen, however when printed the image in question showed with a light grey background instead of the white background that I knew was supposed to be printed.

A quick search on google turned up results that suggested saving to:

• .gif
• .jpg or .jpeg
• .tif or .tiff

Rather than .png or .bmp however my image was already saved as a .jpg file.

After much frustration and further ‘googling’ I found this article that solved the problem in question. All that was needed was to change the color mode from

CMYK to RGB

Simple as that, apparently word needs the RGB format to display correctly.

St Helens Roofing website using wordpress, based on the theme thematic

I’ve been developing this site for a few weeks, it is based on the excellent thematic theme developed by Ian Stewart.

Here is the link to the site

http://www.shwindows.co.uk/wordpress

The page incorporates some extra stuff that I have developed, for example a random image header script, and also scripting to set the theme to 2 columns (rather than 3) when a page has no sub pages.

AgeProject interesting web research application

I stumbledUpon a neat website where you can upload a photo and then kinda like HotOrNot.com users have to guess what age they think the person in the picture is.

I’ve uploaded this picture to the site

Here is a link to the page where you can guess my age.

*edit* I can’t believe I used the word NEAT, haha.

Scumbag DJs

Me and two of my friends (Grimey + Barton)have a DJ set at the Tudor House hotel on the first and third of every month.

I’ve just set up a worpress blog for the SCUMBAGS with a simple theme and custom header.

Now I’ve just got to convince the others to sign up-to wordpress and start blogging regularly.

Windows Media Player “Now Listening To” rss functionality

I really wanted to find a plugin or program that could automatically create an rss feed of the songs played in Windows Media Player. I wanted to add the feed to facebook and also to this wordpress blog.

I found Brandon Fullers WMP plugin that seemed to be what I was looking for, as it was specifically designed for blogging.

However after I had downloaded and installed, I found that it required you to use blogging software to post and only included the currently playing song in that particular post. It had a facebook application to go with it, which worked however this wasnt really what i was looking for. (It also uploaded Video file names too which I really didn’t want)

A quick search on the actual facebook applications pointed me to the Last.fm site.
Finally just what I wanted:

• Windows Media Player 11 support.
• Real-time uploading of data.
• Stores a list of past plays.
• Includes Facebook app.
• Provides an RSS feed.

As you can see in my sidebar the song title and artist is displayed, along with date played. The sign up was really fast, plus the plugins work for iTunes and winamp, however I didn’t test WinAmp as I don’t have it installed.

It also asked me if I wanted to upload my recent play history from my Media Library for both iTunes and WMP.

The website looks like it provides a lot more services than just what I was after, customized radio stations and song suggestions based on your play history.

pretty sweet if you ask me (especially for free!)

The Whitehouse is all for more Vampires

Interesting reading over at the official whitehouse site

Here are a few excerpts:

What Are Energy “Vampires?”
” Vampires typically consume anywhere from 4-7 watts per hour.”

What are “Vampire Slayers?”
” Vampire slayers often cost as little as 50 cents”

Full Article Here
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010628-2.html

Old School Breakfast

Made myself some breakfast, look I’ve got ’soldiers’ and everything.

We got a Tefal Toast n’ Egg recently, It’s unbelievably easy to use (I know boiling/poaching an egg isn’t hard anyway) You just whack them in with a little bit of water and it’s all automatic.

We’ve also got a Tefal One Cup kettle, which heats water amazingly quick so you get a cuppa in no time at all.

Breakfast will never be the same again.