TheMirror reverses your text, it’s a simple javascript gimmick, that I havn’t seen anywhere before, even though i’m sure it is in quite a few other places.
Uberlog is a project by Felix Farquharson and Sam Cater, it’s a personal journal/logging application. And is not fully complete. It has the basic functionality and it works without a GUI (see the trunk version). A GUI is nearing completion and should be done after a good couple of hours work (see lp:uberlog/gui).
This project is primarily to make sure Sam and me are set up for IRME (a new take on IRC, that will hopefully make it more accessable by using an Instant Messenger style frontend) which is a project we are planning to start after this is finished.
Currently all code has to be checked out from the bzr repository.
Feel free to use anything in there under the creative commons licence (see the link in the sidebar). Beware: Blueprint CSS framework is included in the bundle, I believe I am allowed to distribute it with this template, but it is covered under a different licence (not the creative commons). There is a screenshot below or you can download the zip here.
This design is here for download because I chose not to use it for this website, if you can find a use for it, you can have it, and change it as you like, also, feel free to remove my name from the bottom.
First things first, buckle your seatbelts, this is going to be a long one. It concludes the three part tutorial (Part 1, Part 2). We’re going to write the code to make the design happen, this includes putting in some dummy text, and at the end, we will have a working design, that could be converted into a WordPress theme. (future tutorial?).
Anyway, first we are going to fill out the index.html file with some standard HTML and the code needed to call blueprint into action, (there will be a download later on in the post if you can’t be bothered to fill out the file yourself):
<html>
<head>
<title>Our Design</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/print.css" type="text/css" media="print">
<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]--><!-- this needs to be after the framework -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /></head>
<body>
<div class="container"></div>
</body>
</html>
Continue reading 'Web Development with The Gimp and Blueprint CSS - Part 3'
This tutorial starts where the other one left off and covers chopping up and saving of the image we created. It’s relatively straight forward and easy to follow.
You should open the XCF file you have from last time, or you can download one from here. So that you have the following on your screen:
Continue reading ‘Web Development with The Gimp and Blueprint CSS - Part 2′
The GIMP is a popular FREE and open source image editing program, Blueprint CSS is a CSS framework, it makes web layouts easy and chooses sensible style details on your web page. It is compatible with almsost all moder browsers and makes designing a website easy and simple.
This first part contains how to set up the files and folders and create the image in the Gimp, the second part will contain how to slice up the image and save it, and the third part (out 14/01/09) will show how to write the code and finish up.
First, a little about my setup. I’m running Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit version). I have GIMP 2.6, I also am going to be using Firefox 3. The Browser should not matter as Blueprint is tested and works in most modern browsers. I assume knowledge of your chosen OS, that you have the gimp installed and working, and that you know how to open an image in the gimp. It’s also useful if you know what some of the tools are called.
At the end of the three part tutorial you should have something like this in your web browser, with boxes for the content and sidebar etc.:
Continue reading ‘Web Development with The Gimp and Blueprint CSS - Part 1′
There is a new version of AmLog out, licenced under the BSD licence (revised). There has been some documentation added, and it is all around easier to use. visit http://launchpad.net/amlog and click download to get it. Read the README first.
A simple UpsideDown GUI is available from the code bin.
I havn’t written much worth noting recently, and I havn’t had much that was worth posting about. Still, I thought I would post quickly to let everyone know that i’m still alive.
I have found an Awesome Website. It gives you a list of some very good freee applications for Mac OSX, well worth a look if you have a mac.
Also I have been involved with Young Enterprise at school, and have set up a website explaining who we are, what we sell and where we sell it. Our Young Enterprise website has more information.
It isn’t very full at the moment. But i have written it over the weekend in any spare time i have had using Django and I aim to put all the peices of code in there that don’t really deserve their own sourceforge/launchpad project. The URL is http://code.dontclickonme.com/. I will update the links in this blog to point to the Snippets library rather than the plain text files that they usually are sometime soon.
I think it really shows what you can do with Django, and how quickly you can make somthing functional using it.
If you are at all intrested in the code for the Library itself. Leave a comment.
