Archive for the 'web dev' Category

MODx – an elegant, easy open source CMS

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

I have been looking into several content management systems lately. It is bizarre that I have been developing and maintaining sites for a few years now but have only just got around to investigating applications that can help make that happen! There are certainly a huge amount of open source content management systems out there. [...]

Movies at Dundrum Website

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Update August 2006: A revised Movies@ site has now been launched. It’s still far from perfect, but it is a huge improvement on the original eyesore. I wish I had taken some screen shots, but you really had to browse the original version to truly experience the horror! I have not got around to visiting [...]

Yahoo! knows where I live

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I came across something interesting the other day while looking at my referrer logs. Several visitors had reached me after searching at Yahoo! for quite generic phrases like freecycle, janine and cross stitch. On clicking through to the Yahoo! results pages, I saw that the searches had been made at Yahoo! UK and Ireland with [...]

A List Apart Redesign

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

I caught up this evening with the news that A List Apart, the premier online magazine "for people who make websites" has been redesigned and restructured. Since this site is the playground of the cream of the crop, the new look is being pored over by web monkeys the world over. My 2 cent ain’t [...]