New website for GoCave | FCS Websites
We have recently launched a new site for Lake District caving and mining instruction company GoCave.com. They were using a template based system that came free with their hosting package, which was letting them down in terms of design and search engine friendliness. We created a Textpattern content managed website for GoCave, with a news […]
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 […]
THE RESULT MAY BE YOUR DEATH. AT ANY TIME.
Don’t say we didn’t tell you – we haven’t got time to check every bin for tramps you know.
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 […]
Newspaper adverts are dead
I don’t read papers much, I prefer the internet. Almost infinite choice of sources. Searchable. Copy and pastable. Refinable. Reading through the small ads of a local paper today, I could not believe how difficult it was to find what I was looking for. Such a narrow choice. No search function. Just a sea of […]