ongoing personal web projects
Thursday, March 31st, 2005I’ve been neglecting hypothecate recently because i’m forging ahead with the magazine idea. I’ve recruited Iain Claridge (netsight designer/ photographer) to do some design, and i’ve stripped back a basic plone install ready to skin. I’ve done this by seperating all the CSS used by plone for admin (i.e. all the tabs/menus used when editing) into a file called ploneAdmin.css and then the site styling will go in a seperate file. Other than that i’m trying to leave the plone HTML as standard as possible, although inevitably i’ve moved/removed a few things.
We are still short of a name (suggestions welcome!), and we haven’t got any content yet either - I want to have the site up as a "pilot issue" even if it has dummy content, to help recruit contributors.
Also, I emailed Andy Budd recently to ask advice about setting up a Bristol version of skillswap. I got a reply saying that he has had similar enquiries from people in other areas and had been thinking about setting up a central site/ database. I’ve offered some of my non-existent free time to help with this
i’ve started catching the shuttle ferry across the floating harbour from the end of gas ferry road to the new development at the bottom of jacobs wells road. This cuts about a mile and a half of my route (including the worst and best bits so a mixed blessing). It doesn’t necessarily save any time though, as the boat (the tiny white blob on the right of the photo, not the grand brown blob on the left) is usually across the other side when I arrive and you have to wave for them to come over and pick you up.
was held last night in aardman animations conference room (cheers Jon). The meeting was constructive and I think we managed to reign in a bit more tightly how this thing is going to/ should work. More words to follow, when things have been wriiten up. I am chairing the next one in two weeks (for further details, subscribe to the