O'NEILL:DESIGN

Snow from Space

Steve — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:11:34 +0000

Had to share this awesome pic of old blighty…

Body of Change – Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Steve — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:00:53 +0000

Announcing a new Wordpress site for Dance Movement Psychotherapist Jacqueline Butler. Using stylised Wordpress themes is an affordable and quick way to get your site up and running.

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Aspect Events – new website

Steve — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:12:05 +0000

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.”

New Blog for illustrator Brian Gallagher

Steve — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:09:45 +0000

Check out Brian Gallagher’s new blog which I’ve created in Wordpress:

www.bdgart.com/blog

Some great illustrations and worth subscribing to.

Harrogate International Festivals

Steve — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:55:17 +0000

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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.

Google Scary View

Steve — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:53 +0000

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.

Wandsworth, Greater London SW11, UK

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.

New dawn? Internet Explorer 8 released

Steve — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:33:23 +0000

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.

The Rust has bitten the dust

Steve — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:53:29 +0000

Too overpowering therefore we are sampling ‘fspring’. Cleaner.

Web Content Management System Showdown

Steve — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:14:42 +0000

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.”

Although the sites are fairly dull here they are:

Seems that they agreed to call it a draw. The winner being Open Source software.

In Rust we trust…

Steve — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:04:32 +0000

Now this brings me to the monstrosity that is my new website. Let’s be honest it’s a tadge overpowering ;-)

It’s based on a great theme by FTL Wordpress Themes which I discovered at Smashing Magazine called ‘Color paper’. I’ve oxidised it into the present scrap yard you see before you. Reading FTL’s website I’m left somewhat confused. They offer a great selection of top themes all which are free, yet something is puzzling me – their website states: ‘If you would like to purchase a theme for complete rights, please contact us. Themes are priced at $4,000 each.’ Eh? What’s all that aboot? >emails FTL to discover the truth<…