Busy Month

Overall its been a busy month, Ive won a new client through a new tender document Ive created. And Ive also done several small sites still waiting to go live.

I still havent heard anything from the company retrieving the data from my burnt out drive.

Ive been playing around with php and ive created a small system to allow my clients to upload files to their folders on my site and the php also returns a list of files within that folder automatically. Not bad for my first attempt at php really, you can see the system in action here
it's pretty handy as I dont have to open a html page and add a file link, i just upload the file to the right folder.

Ive also written a flash version of the uploader to be integrated into the website-generator when I have time, you can see the flash version here the php for the flash is slightly different in that it ruturns the list of files in the folder as xml, so flash can recreate the list in a list component.

Hip Hotels goes live

For the whole of May I have worked on a huge site for one of my clients. Its one of the biggest projects Ive been involved with to date and it makes a change to work on a site that grants the user a bit of intellegence You wont find any annoying "click here" prompts and there are no lists of hotels or maps to be found anywhere. You simply make choices based on the images displayed. Every mouse click changes a selection of high quality images presented to you. Again images are used to help the user make a decision, and a small amount of text teases the user, offering small snippets of history and interesting anecdotes.

The whole site was constructed around a single class, the class itself is a pretty complicated piece of code. It takes xml from the database and presents the menu, each click presents a new menu, again taken from the xml.

There's also a bespoke mp3 player built into the site, and this should appear at a later date, The music on the site is absolutely fantasctic, well worth buying.