Welcome
Lead developer, teacher, freelancer and self diagnosed workaholic, I find myself glued to my laptop every minute of the day and night either working or experimenting with technology.
When I do manage to disconnect from my laptop I seem to be teaching others to use technology at New College Nottingham as a Lecturer in Interactive Media.
Their is no escaping the fact...
I am an addict, I confess!
Updates
BSL Cafe bar
Just done a design and frontend build on a new cafe/bar opening in Derby soon.
The build was a quick one day turnaround with future work building a CMS to maintain the site later.
The build can be seen demo'd here: http://www.flashbite.com/BSLCB/
Site will be hosted at: http://www.bslcafebar.co.uk/
Going Offline
Media Temple will be scheduling some server maintenance which means that Flashbite will be probably offline during the maintenance.
Scheduled Maintenance will commence: Thursday, June 26th 2008 @11:00 PM - Friday, June 27th @3:00 AM Pacific Time.
Flashbite will be back so sorry for any convenience in the meantime.
Link: http://www.mediatemple.net/
QSC Audio Products UK
Just spec'ed up a minisite for UK provider of QSC audio products which will be homed at: http://www.qscaudio.uk.com
Paragon Law
Just been given the nod for a new website project, TwelveTen have been working on a branding revamp for Paragon Law. The re-vamp includes a freshen up of their identity/brand and a new website which TwelveTen are just about finishing up. I will be taking the design and turning it into a working website as well as bolting on the well known expression engine to allow Paragon Law to manage their website.
LINK PARAGON LAW: http://www.paragonlaw.co.uk
Accessability and Gimmicks
Some things should always be kept separated... it's for the greater good.
So way do people always have to ignore this basic rule?
If you want accessible than design and develop with that in mind, if you want gimmicks that give you a cutting edge then go ahead knock yourself out.
But to mix the two... it's suicide i say.
Parklands School Officially Launch
On Friday 25th April Parklands School were delighted to officially launch thier school website. The children watched Mr D O'Brien (FlashBite) officially cut the ribbons of the red and white balloons to symbolise the launch.
Mrs B Ellender, Vice Chair of Governors at Parklands School, kindly ensured the balloons did not become airbourne until the appropriate time.
More about the launch can be found at
LINK: http://www.parklands-school.co.uk/website.php .
Notts City Council update
Initial designs are looking pretty slick, I got the first graphic template today to start converting to xhtml and css ready for demonstrating to NottsCC early next week.
NCC Tender
Twelve Ten have been requested to tender for Nottingham City Council website redesign. Wednesday 16th April I will be at NCC offices for an initial briefing to talk about updating the frontend of the website to be more fresh and interactive.
CURRENT WEBSITE: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/
JobBook
Just started on an AIR application to track projects at TwelveTen.
TwelveTen
TwelveTen have a new website to show reel their portfolio of work. I was asked to build the serverside and Flash elements of the project which included a DOM scripted gallery navigation.
LINK: www.twelveten.com
Parklands School
Parklands will finally go live after a successful Ofsted report giving them a well deserved grade and feedback as an 'Outstanding school'.
The Ofsted inspectors also viewed the website which was still awaiting its launch and reported back that it was one of the best Infant & Nursery school websites they have seen.
So well done Parklands! a well deserved result.
LINK: www.parklands-school.co.uk
Cheap Servers
Working on a restored server that had gone down and which brought back online from a back-up by the host.
You would assume that a good host would be able to reinstate a server with minimal issues.... wrong, time to move to www.mediatemple.net
