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CMS Template Design and Build
Posted: 1st Oct 2009
We have just finished designing and building some templates for Halogy CMS.
The process is similar to other CMS like Wordpress or Drupal - do the information architecture design, design the look and feel in Photoshop, then build it in to HTML/CSS. The next part will be integrating it in to the CMS. We are pleased with what we've done so far.
Our Ethos (Web Development Process)
Posted: 31st Aug 2009
I thought I would just share a bit about how we think the web development process should work - from when a client submits a brief to the site being handed over (and beyond). We are calling this the Halogy Ethos because it forms the basis of why we built Halogy.
Web Developer's Cup of Tea
Posted: 6th Apr 2009
We all get those days when we really just don't feel like doing any work. There might be a lot to do but for some reason we just can't really be bothered - the motivation is low and the lethargy is high. How do we snap out of it and do some work?
A cup of tea and a good tune. It's worked for me. Tea makes all the difference, and while sipping on a nice cup of hot brew you can put on your favourite Johnny Cash album (maybe not for some) and crack on with that difficult Jquery AJAX sign up form with field auto-complete and CSS3 rounded corners. It works!
Select all checkboxes with JQuery
Posted: 6th Mar 2009
We have just built a cool 'select all checkboxes' function in JQuery and released the code. It is for administrators of Halogy to be able to simply grant permissions to their users at a category level, but if they want to they can open up the category and grant individual permissions.
CodeIgniter - Custom errors using the Form Validation class
Posted: 4th Mar 2009
TECHY WARNING - This post has techy-talk, be warned
Recently I've been using the new Form Validation Class on CodeIgniter and though overall it is much better than the previous validation class I found a gripe with it recently when trying to add custom error messages using the "validation_errors()" helper.
New portfolio section using JQuery Carousel
Posted: 3rd Mar 2009
We have just launched a new Portfolio section called Our Work. It uses a (quite heavily) adapted version of jCarouselLite. We are quite chuffed with it, and also it worked first time in IE6!
A cool new AJAX search feature
Posted: 2nd Mar 2009
We have just implemented a cool new tag based AJAX search feature to the Halogy blog system. It searches tags or keywords that are attached to the blog posts, and then returns the top results underneath. Like the Google "Suggestions" system.
CodeIgniter - building web sites fast!
Posted: 1st Mar 2009
What is CodeIgniter?
I have been using CodeIgniter for about 6 months now and I really love it. It is basically a framework that you can build web applications on quickly. A bit like Symfony or the Zend Framework it allows developers to not have to re-invent the wheel every time they build a blog or a shopping cart system. We have built so many web applications which would normally have taken months, thanks to CodeIgniter framework.
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