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Pamela is an emerging artist, who is process driven with an experimental approach which creates unforeseen and interesting results.
Her experience is within the built environment having studied Architectural Engineering, she then continued to work as a design engineer within this field whilst establishing herself as a fine artist.
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Aspect Events – new website
I’m pleased to announce the completion of a new website for Nicholas Merchant’s company: www.aspectevents.co.uk
“Taking you to fascinating places for enjoyable short breaks in congenial company.”
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Check out Brian Gallagher’s new blog which I’ve created in Wordpress:
Some great illustrations and worth subscribing to.
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In cooperation with the Conrad Davies Company I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Harrogate International Festivals new website.
HIF, who had previously being using Adobe Contribute, wanted an easier admin system and we decided Wordpress was the way forward. Based on Conrad’s branding the site spans three areas – the HIF main portal, the Summer Music Festival and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
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Have you checked out Google’s big brother view? Damn scary stuff – hope you weren’t undressing when their camera car was passing. They’ve got street views of 25 major towns so far, including Leeds.
Just go to Google maps and zoom in – then zoom in a bit more. Or test it out below.
Thought I’d take a trip down memory lane and check out my time in London.
The bustling hive of activity that was Battersea’s student halls of residence doesn’t look much different from when I was there. Only it’s now certified as derelict. What a waste – it overlooked Battersea Park. Though the locals are kicking up a fuss.
Of course Street View is not without it’s detractors – the main concern being privacy.
The cities covered by Street View UK are: London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bradford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Swansea, York, Newcastle, Dundee, Southampton, Norwich and Scunthorpe.
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You may not be aware of this but web developers hate Internet Explorer 1/2/3/4/5/6/7. No, hate is too weak a word. Despise, revile and abominate would be more appropriate.
Why developers hate IE…
When a designer builds a website he or she expects it to look the same no matter which browser it is viewed in. To this end there is a set of browser compliance standards. Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera make fine efforts to pass the test. Microsoft, however has arrogantly ignored these standards. Hence the designer must fiddle around with tedious bits of additional code to make it look and work properly. Do not underestimate how aggravating this can be.
Random quotes:
‘As someone who writes web apps IE has wasted thousands of hours of my time, hate is not even a strong enough word to express how I feel about IE.’
‘I like to say I don’t hate anyone or anything in this world, because hate is a powerful word, but I absolutely hate Internet Explorer.’
‘Look, I hate IE. I hate it.’
Happy days?
Good news everybody – IE 8 is the first version of Microsoft’s browser to be compliant with some key industry standards: HTML and CSS.
Problem solved?
I’m afraid not. There are people out there still using IE6, never mind IE7. It’s early days but so far the take up of IE8 has been slow and we have yet to see the inevitable set of new problems that this release brings with it.
Should you upgrade to IE8?
I’d wait a while but you can always try it and then remove it later. Maybe a better idea all together is to use one of the following browsers instead:
In fact there’s no reason why you shouldn’t install and test all of them.
Web Content Management System Showdown
Interesting story at CMSwire.com. In an Iron Chef-like match-up, a team of developers from Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress had 100 hours to build a website based on a specific list of specifications and design.pdf. Then representatives of each team got to meet face to face to show off their hard work during the South by Southwest Interactive festival in a session called “The Ultimate Showdown of Content Management System Destiny.” Read on…
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