Category: Computer
Trading Eye ecommerce system: First impressions
I saw Trading Eye quite a while ago but did not have time to have a good play with it. Now I have, so downloaded the trial localhost version and got busy. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a geek/nerd/whatever but installation was not easy. It needed a PHP loader module adding to my […]
View info for multiple files in single pane on Mac OSX
Just a quick one – instead of “get info” for individual files, use alt+cmd+I to open info for multiple files in one info pane. Hard to explain, really easy to do and very useful for unlocking a whole folder of locked files all at once 🙂
New job!
I recently took redundancy from the IT company and have started working at an integrated marketing agency in Nottingham. We do web and print design, SEO/PPC, video production, Flash and 3D design – the whole bundle. The company has a “Fun Squad” who arrange things for us to do such as monthly socials, yearly trips […]
Textpattern Gallery with Slimbox
A recent Texpattern site needed a gallery where the thumbnails could be clicked and shown using the popular Lightbox effect. I used Textpattern 4.08 and the plugins rss_thumbpop and glx_admin_image. Rss_thumbpop is used to display the thumbnails of all the images in a certain category on a Textpattern page and works well – but does […]
My workspace
I have a little room where I do my web design work, it’s just the right size to get hunkered down and wrestle with CSS. Featuring: Yamaha studio monitors 20″ iMac 15″ Macbook Pro (usually running Windows for Internet Explorer testing) Lacie USB backup and storage drives, the little one for Time Machine and the […]
Peopleperhour.com – good or bad for business?
I have recently signed up for peopleperhour.com after a colleague recommended those kind of sites to me. Having had a look around, I am not sure this kind of site is good for the client or the freelancers on there. Most of the web projects have almost no definite scope to them – for example […]