Furnished Dining Room
We got some furniture for our Dining room. We now have a drinks cabinet 🙂 (and a table, sideboard and book shelves): Before: After: Although, it’s more of an office than a dining room now.
Frog Woes
The sight of a frog makes me feel sick so Kix found it funny that we had to edit a blog post that contained a real frog photo for a client of ours. Good phobia therapy? 🙂
The Bitvolution Webserver
The hardware behind Bitvolution is called “Butterfree“, he’s based in Germany (www.hetzner.de): Specs: CPU: Intel® Coreâ„¢ i7-920 Quadcore incl. Hyper-Threading Technology. RAM: 8 GB DDR3. Disk: 2 x 750 GB SATA II (Software-RAID 1). Features: LAMP – Full root access. 24h reset service via Web interface 92 GBit bandwidth with unlimited traffic usage (but the […]
Introducing Butterfree
I have a new machine. He’s called “Butterfree”, he’s German and I rent him for £45 per month from http://www.hetzner.de/en: Specs: CPU: Intel i7-920 Quadcore incl. Hyper-Threading Technology. RAM: 8 GB DDR3. Disk: 2 x 750 GB SATA II (Software-RAID 1). Features: LAMP – Full root access. 24h Reset service via Webinterface – I already […]
PeoplePerHour.com search page redesign
My latest project was to implement a redesign of the PeoplePerHour “Find Freelancers” page. Previous Design New Design Why is the new search better? It’s twice as fast Many less DB queries per page (old: >100, new: 10) Less page reloads needed (results refinement via AJAX) Uses faster DB queries, less table JOINs and better […]
Clearing floats with pure CSS
Do you ever use <br style=’clear:both’ /> or <div style=’clear:both’></div> in your webdesign? If you do, stop now, there is a better way to prevent subsequent page elements being affected by the previous floating sections: Bad: Why is it bad? <br style=’clear:both’ /> is bad because it introduces a blank line when you actually only […]
HeidiJoyceGardens.com
We have just finished and published http://www.heidijoycegardens.com. It should hopefully look clean and simple? Technical details of site: The site is written in PHP using WordPress as a development framework. Uses the Yahoo grids CSS framework (and their CSS Reset). Uses Jquery and Jquery UI (hosted by Google)
Finished First “for-pay” website
Our first site as freelancers is more-or-less finished. It should hopefully look clean and simple?
My new company – Bitvolution Limited
Bitvolution is a company I set up to provide freelance web development and consultancy. I have got the website up and running: Let’s see how it goes…
