Quite a while ago, I used to run a website at www.mymusicguide.co.uk – it’s just been resurrected! Yay!
The point behind it is somewhere to house all those press releases I get through being the editor of Leeds Music Scene. The thing is, most of the news and articles cluttering up my in-box have little or nothing to do with Leeds.
They now have a home…
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.
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.
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.
It was Leeds Festival recently (25th August to 27th August) at Bramham Park and as editor of the Leeds Music Scene website I received press passes to attend and write.
Too much vodka removed any hope of words for Friday (although Klaxons were ace!), but I did write about the festivities on Saturday and Sunday. In short, I enjoyed Leeds bands The Pigeon Detectives and Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames. I didn’t particularly like Panic! At The Disco. And other than their single (which I do like) I wasn’t so keen on The View.
Sheila said, “I’d rather stick a pen in my eye than watch The View again!”.
Says it all.
