So far the recession has spared me. In the contrary, the goals I have set myself for this year are likely to be dwarfend if the pace of the first two months of this year continues. About a week ago, Gordon from eWrite wrote a post about “Learning the time management thing“. Joining this, I want to tell you about my approach to the same problem. (more…)

Yesterday was one of those days, where I had to put up with the odds of the IE6 again. It wrecked my head, even having found different handy solutions for e.g. using PNG, it is still a major act to get it right. It used to be a challenge, but it has become a nuisance, so with effect of tomorrow, the 1st of March 2009, we will no longer be supporting  the IE6 in web design. (more…)

Go and have a walk, relax and enjoy life … Just kidding. Of course some of us just can’t afford this luxury, so we would have to think of another way of dealing with such a problem.

I have been Using GMail now for over a year and I don’t want to miss it. I used to use Microsoft Outlook, but after using it for may years – even though I really enjoy the Interface of Outlook 2007 – I wanted to move on and free myself from the overpower of Microsoft. (more…)

The last few days have been very exciting, as we were able to finish, test and release the Import/Export Tools for XT:Commerce we have been developing over the last weeks for a customer.

The in-built import/export possibilities of XT:Commerce are rather simple and do not really work, as they dump some undocumented csv file, and that only for products. Even the apparently existing interface to the German accountancy software Faktura is not really working as there are several problems, e.g. regarding the import/export of graduated prices. (more…)

The Three big Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN have improved their services for submitting and monitoring URLs in the last years. The probably better known of both are the Google Webmaster Services. MSN Live has setup a similar but far less comprehensive service called Live Search Webmaster Center, so does Yahoo with its Yahoo Site Explorer. All three services require a login. You can use the Google Service, by registering you Google Account to this Service. To use the Microsoft Service you will need a Windows Live ID and for Yahoo login with your Yahoo Account. (more…)

There is a short answer to that Question: “No, it won’t!” (more…)

I just came across a little problem with my XAMPP installation. After reorganising some local virtual webservers in my %SYSTEM%/drivers/etc/host and %APACHE%/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

I could not restart my apache through the XAMPP Control Panel it just kept crashing with the error

	Fehlgeschlagene Anwendung apache.exe, Version 2.2.4.0,
	fehlgeschlagenes Modul msvcr71.dll, Version 7.10.3052.4,
	Fehleradresse 0x000017fb. (more...)

Browne Brothers - Site Services

brownbrothers.ie was the second design we did for eWrite. This customer wanted a website designed to promote their landscaping services, including, General Landscaping, Maintenance, Hard Landscaping, Safety Surfacing and Play Grounds.They had no existing logo or preference for colours to use. They wanted the site to reflect their services and each page of the site to show an image in the background relating to their 5 areas of work. The site title had to be “Browne Brothers” with “Site Services” in smaller text. The title text had to be a strong font in green colour.

We were given no reference page and were to create  an open design, to include plenty of images of their work in the background or foreground. Preferred color was green.

Gerard Kearney - Close-up Magician

Gerard Kearney is a magician and needed a website designed to promote his service. He is a close up magician providing entertainment at weddings and corporate functions. His typical interaction with a group is casual. There is no stage, he interacts with a group of people and spends a few minutes providing entertainment to the group by performing a few acts.

The request was for a basic, 1-5 pages design, which had to be dark,  mysterious and akin to magic, mystery and intrigue, using dark colours like black and grey. The website should be superior to websites of competing magicians.

The Website for Gerard Kearney was the first job for eWrite. Here we did the design and turned them into templates to be us used with eWrite Lite CMS