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Skincare SOS
Posted: Aug 2009 | In: Content Management & Expression Engine & News | Leave a comment
Just a quick shout out for our latest web deployment, Skincare SOS. Skincare SOS is equipped with a fairly hefty feature set, including dynamic Affiliate Marketing and 10CMS integration.
Static Structure with EE
Posted: Jul 2009 | In: | 3 Comments
Expression Engine (EE) has pretty much become our default CMS of choice. But one of the biggest issues has always been trying to coax EE into making more traditionally structured sites. Looks like those days are finally over, as the very ingenious people at NGenWorks have built a superb module for generating sites with a fixed structure! Hoorah!
Drupal Sections
Posted: Jun 2009 | In: Content Management & Drupal | Leave a comment
Another great Drupal module; this one allows us to create sections within a site. Furthermore, each section has an installed template, theme or style attached to it.
The Mills Archive - Family History
Posted: Jun 2009 | In: News | Leave a comment
We're going to be starting work very shortly on an exciting package of extensions for the Friends of the Mills Archive Trust. The work will include a new membership subscription centre, and the addition of a new Family History database.
Drupal themes in Dreamweaver CS4
Posted: Jun 2009 | In: Content Management & Drupal & Development | Leave a comment
Chris Charlton created a free Dreamweaver extension that enables support for Drupal file types and the entire Drupal API with Dreamweaver CS4.
Malware Detected
Posted: Jun 2009 | In: News | Leave a comment
For a good long while, our homepage has been sporting a nice SEO 1.1 certification badge, but the most recent edition of Google Chrome has started warning all visitors to our site that we might be spreading malware! And, it decided this because we had a single image on our homepage from web-developers.net.
Drupal Theme Builder
Posted: Jun 2009 | In: Content Management & Drupal & Expression Engine & News | Leave a comment
If you are into Drupal 6 themes and are tired of hand coding your theme .info files, or are still learning how to make one, then this is the application for you.
The Business Channel
Posted: May 2009 | In: Hosting & News | Leave a comment
Hot on the heels of Business Action TV, Greystone Media today released their latest Web.TV project, "The Business Channel". The Business Channel is the first site to be hosted on our next-generation global delivery network.
Mills Enthusiasts get involved
Posted: Nov 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
In the few short weeks that the FOMAT received their new community site, visitor numbers have doubled. Enthusiasts and experts alike have been actively posting and commenting on a daily basis.
World Cancer Research Fund
Posted: Nov 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
Following on from the successful work we did on the Cancer Prevention section of their UK Website, we are now working closely with the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) on the re-design and development of their global network of Websites.
New community features for the Mills Archive Trust
Posted: Nov 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
We've just finished the new community site for the Friends of the Mills Archive Trust. Come on in and take a look...
Kia ora! No News… is Good News!
Posted: Oct 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
It's been a while since we left any news, comments or announcements here on our homepage... The good news is that we've just been utterly rushed of our feet...
Divine Intervention!
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: News & Stuff | Leave a comment
We're delighted to now be able to offer all our existing clients cost-effective remote training & support.
Search engine keyword highlighting
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: CSS & Design & Stuff & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
We've just added search engine keyword highlight to our websites list of features. Any visitors to our projects page from Google will now have their search criteria highlighted. This kind of feature improves the usability of our site, allowing visitors to find what they were looking for quickly.
Video on Demand! The future starts now!
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: Design & News & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
We're very excited to announce our latest project, The Ethical Channel, in association with Greystone Media. Video on Demand and community feedback.
Diverse Britain 2009
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
Today, we launched a new website for St. Jamess House to accompany their next publication, Diverse Britain 2009. We hope to add this to our projects section very shortly.
Teasel Mailshot - Direct Marketing
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
Not something we do very often, but today we delivered a targeted email marketing campaign for Andrew Rowson on behalf of his client Teasel PM.
Google Checkout
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: Hosting & News | Leave a comment
We've just verified our new Google Checkout account, and we're now able to accept credit/debit payments through the Google Checkout service.
Google Chrome! We’re 100% Compatible
Posted: Sep 2008 | In: CSS & Design & News | Leave a comment
Earlier today, Google released a new web browser promising a revolution in speed, stability and safety.
We've just tested all our sites on this newest of browsers, and even those we created 3 years ago work perfectly. This is what happens when you build websites that conform to the W3C standard.
Mate Rocks! - It’s official
Posted: Aug 2008 | In: Development | 1 Comments
I don't enjoy programming anymore, it's frustrating and tedious; This has been my mantra for a good few years, but I might be about to change my mind! Having just spent a solid two days in the presence of Adobe Flex and ASFusion's Mate framework I've suddenly got the urge to do some programming!
World Cancer Research Fund UK
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
The "Cancer Prevention" sub-section of the WCRF(UK) web site has been successfully delivered, on time and on budget.
Secret Web TV project gets key sponsor approval!
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
Our pioneering Web TV project got the green light this week from a key industry sponsor. Very close to being able to tell you all about it, we just need the green light from all the interested parties.
St. Jamess House
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: Design & Development & News | Leave a comment
We are delighted to announce that we have been asked to redesign and redevelop St. James's House. Work on this high profile site will start very shortly and we hope to be done before the end of August 2008.
Secret WebTV project reaches Beta release!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & Hosting & Expression Engine | 1 Comments
We're truly thrilled to announce that an exciting new B2B media project in partnership with a new media company reached the Beta milestone this weekend. After 14 months of planning & development, our brand new state of the art WebTV channel is almost ready to go!!!
Firefox 3 is launched today!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: News & Stuff | Leave a comment
Firefox 3 was officially released today! Free, Fast, Compliant... Make the switch and ditch Internet Explorer today! Get Firefox 3 - now!
QuantSol is Reloaded!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & News & Stuff | Leave a comment
It gives us great pleasure to announce the release of QuantaSols revamped website! All new structure, all new features, and with all the old content still intact!
ASFusion Mate for Flex, a new framework for Flex
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & Stuff | Leave a comment
Mate, from ASFusion is a new framework for Flex developers that attempts to address the many perceived flaws in the Cairngorm Framework. It's too early to tell just yet, but I'm very seriously considering bringing my Cairngorm investigation to a close and pushing further ahead with Mate. I've been very impressed in the week I've had with it so far.
Diverse-Britain Reloaded
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Hosting & News | Leave a comment
Our Diverse Britain website, part of the St. Jamess House family of websites has been re-released as a Linux/PHP application so that it could relocated it to our rock solid Linux platform.
Implementing .NET thread security with WebORB, Cairngorm and Flex 3
Posted: May 2008 | In: Development | Leave a comment
One of the first challenges I've faced so far has been making the web service calls from Flex more robust and more secure, in this article I discuss how I've implemented .NET thread security using WebORB.NET and Cairngorm. But I'm looking for feedback, do you know a better way?
Ecotricity.co.uk - We’ve switched to Renewable Energy
Posted: May 2008 | In: News & Stuff | Leave a comment
No offsetting, no gimmicks, no marketing spin. Divine Creations gets all of its energy from the renewable energy provider ecotricity.co.uk.
Expression Engine upgraded from 1.6.1 to 1.6.3
Posted: May 2008 | In: News & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
We've just finished an out of hours upgrade of several of our clients' EE installations. Most were moving from 1.6.2 or 1.6.1 to the latest 1.6.3 and it all went smoothly, except for one slight issue with php caching which gave us the impression the upgrades had failed!
Flex 3 with WebORB - The first steps
Posted: May 2008 | In: Development | Leave a comment
I've recently taken up the Flex 3 challenge, but I've encountered a few problems whilst setting up WebORB.NET in my development environment.
QuantaSol Phase II
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: News | 1 Comments
Almost a year after the launch of QuantaSol and their CMS Website, we are now working on the next phase of development. The aim is to review the sites strengths and weaknesses and evolve it to reflect the company twelve months on.
Sliding Doors CSS Revisited
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: CSS & Design | Leave a comment
Recently I had to perform a code review of an administration system I helped with some time ago. For the form control buttons, I'd used a technique that was shared in A List Apart's Website called Sliding Doors of CSS. It provided a comprehensive tutorial on creating attractive buttons with curved edges that expand no matter how long the text link inside is.
Adding Colour to Black & White Photographs
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Photography | Leave a comment
I was recently asked if I could add some colour and remove tiny imperfections from some old black & white wedding photographs. The job is now complete, you can see the images in the projects section, and I thought I'd share some of the techniques I used.
Full Google Calendar integration on the Mac version of Thunderbird & Lightning
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Stuff | Leave a comment
Having enjoyed using a fully integrated Google calendar on my PC using Thunderbird/Lightning, it puzzled me when I couldn't find a Google calendar option whilst adding a remote calendar on the Mac? Best I could get is a read only version using the iCal connector. Or so I thought...
The Phorm fall out
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
The recent media frenzy surround the ad-tracking system called Phorm has highlighted some important questions regarding the legality of "opt-out" services.
SPF Policies
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & Hosting | Leave a comment
We recently discovered an issue with a few of our websites that generate solicited emails. We were finding that emails were being marked as junk, yet our SMTP server wasn't on any blacklists and wasn't an open relay. After a little digging, this is when I learned about Sender Policy Frameworks (SPF).
Linking to weblog template groups in EE
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
What if you're showing a list of entries, from more than one weblog, but you don't want each link that is created to go to the same template? How do you get EE to produce links to different templates depending on an articles particular weblog assignment?
Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: Reading | Leave a comment
Another of the "Classroom In A Book" series, this book provides you with 11 short, clear lessons on the basics of learning Flash.
Kuleration
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: Design | Leave a comment
Kuleration is a great place to check out colour palettes that people have put together, and to mix & play with your own.
Divine Creations gets the Expression Engine Treatment
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: News & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
Finally we've found the time to implement Expression Engine into our own Website.
RAF08.COM reloaded
Posted: Feb 2008 | In: | Leave a comment
Our RAF 90 website, part of the St. Jamess House family of websites has been re-released as a Linux/PHP application so that it could relocated it to our rock solid Linux platform.
Tibet Foundation UK
Posted: Sep 2007 | In: News | 1 Comments
We are delighted to be working closely with the Tibet Foundation to give its web presence a gentle nudge into the 21st century! Tibet Foundation is a non-political charity set up to help Tibetans in exile.
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