Time for another home page update, based on some concepts I’ve had in my head for some time. The current list of features for the site which have yet to be implemented include:
My skill in PHP continues to grow rapidly with only my ability to generate the required algorithm the only limitation.
The two final acts before completion of this theme is a rewrite of the footer and the entire CSS and PHP files.
On the 10th of May 2008, I was fortunate to accompany Jed on an Ash Adventure to the Brecon Beacons, Wales. As you can see from the photo below it was a perfect day:
You can tell two things from this photo, it was a great occasion for me and the weather was beautiful.
A design idea for the website is a page dedicated the colour palette used for the various sites I have been involved with. Perhaps link it with the Adobe Kuler application.
The rapid changing in theme development continues. Technically, these changes aren’t new revisions but just further progressing in getting the job done. The transformation from the Bob theme continues. It wont be long before I have my own set-up.
In the meantime, I have been scouring the internet looking at colour schemes and layouts of websites. I have come across the likes of:
The first has the Mandigo Theme as used by various Wordpress based blogs. The second is more of an inspiration of colour palette choice.
Two great plugins available for WordPress are the WordPress Automatic Upgrade and the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. The former removes the hassle of upgrading WordPress and the latter creates a search engine compliant sitemap and submits it automatically.
With the overall look and feel more defined, work can commence on new features. The key development is a dashboard with several tools.
The first is a car fuel economy tool, to record the mpg for each refuel. The work will require basic database querying and the integration of off-the-shelf graphing server-side scripts. Therefore, such scripts have to be identified.
Once the initial tool has been set-up, the other tools to add:
That’s it for now.
Small changes made to the main page, and also the blog template. The sidebar in Wordpress has now been activated. Need to polish CSS for right menu.
Although the main elements of the site are in position there are some major items that require attention, in no particular order:
I have started to treat this blog as a means of tracking my updates.
