'Web ideas'

JKP relaunch

Posted on July 26, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Well, I’ve been a busy little bee. I relaunched the website for Jessica Kingsley Publishers at the weekend. The site has been redesigned and recoded with a bit of extra functionality. The main thing that has changed is that the site now uses Smarty templates. I’ve always been reluctant to use formal templating systems in […]

QuarkXPress 6.1 upgrade text problem

Posted on July 9, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

We just upgraded to QuarkXPress 6.1 at work and have run into some problems. When we opened documents previously built and saved in Quark 4 everything seemed fine. We then saved as Quark 6 documents and ran into the following error message
“This document was built with other version of some fonts or using QuarkXPress 3.1 […]

ISBN-13 conversion tool written in PHP

Posted on June 30, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

At work today I wrote a conversion tool to translate 10 digit ISBNs into 13 digit ISBNs. Jessica Kingsley Publishers have given me permission to share it with the world here.
I first wrote about ISBN-13 back in January 2003 and now I’m in a company that needs to contend with it.
The idea is […]

Surfing gone mad

Posted on June 18, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

What is this all about? A surfboard with a wireless laptop built into it? Are they utterly mad? Or is it (I hope) just a big joke? What possible use could you have for an internet connection while your surfing? Now, wireless access on a beach would be cool (and happens on lots of beaches […]

Designing without tables

Posted on April 25, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

So, I decided to spruce up Bojates! with a design using stylesheets instead of tables. Nice to work with, and less code to worry about and download. I was thwarted, however, for the pictures section because Gallery uses tables like it was 1998. It’s prompted me to think seriously about looking again at code for […]

People Vs Peer

Posted on January 29, 2004 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Check out People Vs Peer and sponsor Ms Ordinary to raise the most money in the London Marathon (and stop Archer from doing it). It’s an idea that could never have got so far without the internet, and I pray that it is utterly legit. The joy of it is, that even if there’s some […]

Naked translations

Posted on November 18, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

So, I’ve just finished building a website for a friend. A few finishing touches need to be added, but it’s essentially there and it’s live at www.nakedtranslations.com. Céline is a good friend of mine (mentioned in other posts and in the pictures) but by day she’s a translator. The interesting thing about her site is […]

Social projects meeting socially minded programmers

Posted on November 3, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Check out mySociety: a VoxPolitics project. You either contribute an idea or your skills to make society a better place. Another one of those ideas I had that I never implemented!

Got something to confess?

Posted on October 31, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Confess all at grouphug.us. It’s odd this, as I was thinking just the other day that I’d like to build a site where people can purge horrible memories and things that you dwell on for years (I had had a morning of nasty memories that are never really as bas as you feel about them). […]