To celebrate the completion of the first theme I have created from scratch for WordPress I have decided to make it available for download. The theme “XorosDark”, which you can see right now as you are reading, is for WordPress 2 and…
FLUID THEME FINALLY FINISHED!
About two months ago I decided what I wanted to do as my long term theme for not only this blog but the other areas of my site. Finally I have the blog theme working. It has taken a lot…
END OF SEASON
Well….that was an exciting end to the Premiership, despite the champions being decided a couple of weeks ago. It was strange this weekend as a Portsmouth fan. The last few months have been a horrible mixture of anticipation and fear…
IT’S COMING HOME! POSSIBLY!
So the World Cup is a little more than a week away and we’ve already had drama, disappointment, farce and expectation. Pretty much a standard World Cup preparation for England then! We’ve gone from “definately going to win” to “not…
FOOTBALL FATIGUE
As much as I am loving the World Cup, fatigue is starting to set in. The games have been coming thick and fast and so far I have managed to watch, or listen to, almost all of them – obviously…
ONE NIL, TO THE ENGER-LAND
One of the strangest things about this World Cup is the difference between how the media pundits are telling us England are doing and how many (but no means all) of the people you come across feel about it. On…
FANZINE THEME DESIGN
Writing on this blog has taken a back seat this week to my latest website design project. For my football blog, I really wanted to have it look like a magazine rather than a standard blog. Having, to a certain extent,…
MAKING IT SIMPLE?
Sometimes it is difficult to understand just how much computers have changed our lives. Take architecture. These days the majority of drawings, images and information after the initial stages are produced using computers. All our communication bar the phone passes…
MORE THAN JUST TECHNICAL ADVICE
One of the things that is less apparent to those outside architecture is that we provide more than just a technical or design service. Often we deal with clients who are unfamiliar with the building process, or who are familiar…
THE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE
There was an interesting article on the BBC website today regarding the pressure on personal space at work, caused by property prices and cost cutting. It describes how in order to save money there is a trend to minimise the amount of…