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Leeds City Directory
Posted on February 10th, 2007 by davelms.
Categories: Leeds, Web Design.
I’ve recently spent a bit of time creating a more general Leeds site. I started off with the idea of having a portal (-style) front page mixing and matching the best bits of other sites (ahem, legally!) and then creating a web directory of Leeds websites.
Regarding the Web Directory - one of the annoyances I had with DMOZ and hence Google, and Yahoo too, was the fact they are global directories and don’t quite suit all regions. I also found the regional navigation a little difficult. Well, less difficult, more bugging.
Finally, I couldn’t manage to get a domain name of choice, so went for leedz.co.uk ! Zzzzzzzzz… haha.
Leeds Gig Guide gets a revamp…
Posted on October 10th, 2006 by davelms.
Categories: Web Design.
I’ve been busy lately working on a new design for Leeds Gig Guide. The old site was table-driven, looking a little lame and in dire need of some new features.
I took the Yahoo YUI developers kit and based the whole site on its grid and fonts css implementations. Although obviously I get the blame for the design… *wink*.
The Yahoo Calendar implementation made life a lot easier for the Gig Guide, well, basically because it’s an event guide and hence primarily date oriented. Date selection was handled by a javascript request (using Yahoo Connection) to a PHP/MySQL backend which retrieves the gigs for that date and displays the back.
And I got to play a little with Flickr too for some band-related imagery.
Dynamic PHP Images
Posted on September 11th, 2006 by davelms.
Categories: PHP, Web Design.
I’ve done this kind of thing in the past *, and it’s very easy! But, shame on me, I forgot… ooops. Basically, all I wanted to do was take an existing image and use PHP to write text (dynamic, created by my script) over the top and return the updated image to the browser.
(* I created a last.fm / audioscrobbler script that picked up my latest tracks from their feeds, created an image from it, and displayed in my forum signatures. This was before the days that last.fm did this kind of thing themselves!! Bit redundant now though.)
Aaaaanyway… simple really, here’s what I did.
Add To Calendar
Posted on September 4th, 2006 by davelms.
Categories: Web Design.
As part of the Leeds Music Scene website I’ve been working on the events section a little recently. Promoters, venue owners and bands submit their listings over at another site I run (Leeds Gig Guide) and these are then made available to the LMS site where I have band profiles, venue details, etc. The two complement each other nicely.
Each gig now has its own page on the LMS site and I can incorporate a variety of useful bits of information into it, such as venue location (using the Google Maps API) and ticket links.
My next project was to add an “Add To Calendar” option.
Submit form data in WML
Posted on September 3rd, 2006 by davelms.
Categories: WML, Web Design.
One of the tasks I am currently working on is to create (lightweight in size terms) admin pages for mobile phone users. Basically I am looking at WML. I’ve done lots of ‘display’ pages before but never anything more than that, so accepting HTTP POST data is new to me… anyway…
…I found the following WML tutorial, which looks rather useful.