Forward Swept Wings

PHP Development Continues

FSW — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:43:42 +0000

My skill in PHP continues to grow rapidly with only my ability to generate the required algorithm the only limitation.

Completing WordPress Theme

FSW — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:25:48 +0000

The two final acts before completion of this theme is a rewrite of the footer and the entire CSS and PHP files.

An Ash Adventure to the Brecon Beacons

FSW — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:22:20 +0000

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.

Colour Palette

FSW — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:32:59 +0000

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.

Website Inspiration and WordPress Themes

FSW — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:25:51 +0000

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.

WordPress Plugins

FSW — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:16 +0000

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.

Website Ambitions

FSW — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:12:44 +0000

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:

RSS feed reader.
Personal Spend Tool.
Suitable security.
Mobile version of dashboard for over-the-air updates.

That’s it for now.

Further Tweaking

FSW — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:08:33 +0000

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.

Tweaking…

FSW — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:26:05 +0000

Although the main elements of the site are in position there are some major items that require attention, in no particular order:

Finish blog template, noting new URL.
Tweak colour scheme for blog.
Tweak colour scheme for main site, and most importantly emphasise the menu. Might require small redesign to bring forward.
Determine why google does not find ashraf-miah.co.uk.
Start blogging about aviation.
Create google compatible sitemap.

I have started to treat this blog as a means of tracking my updates.

fsw-one Theme Development

FSW — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:08:12 +0000

I finally found the time to create a theme for the blog. It is based on the main site design (http://www.ashraf-miah.co.uk). The theme name (appropriately I feel) is called fsw-one. Still needs fine tuning.