Just a quick post to let everyone know that the new site for South Worcestershire College is now live! It’s taken a long time to get this far, but now that it’s online, I’m happy with it.

Now I need to spend the next two months promoting it – this will be fun

Today was going to be the launch of my latest project – the new site for my current employer: South Worcestershire College. Due to technical difficulties with the server hosting the site, however, it’s now not going to happen for another two weeks.

The problem stems from the fact that the server is running both Apache (for my site) and IIS (for the college’s internal systems), and is resulting in all requests coming into the server, regardless of the URL, being grabbed by Apache and forcing people to view the new site.

I have to admit that I’m feeling disappointed – not so much at the fact the site hasn’t gone live yet (after six months of development, I can wait another two weeks) – but in the way that some people at the company reacted and the nasty comments directed at Jason (the guy who was doing his very best to fix the problem and keep everyone happy).

Although this is something that is entirely out of my control, I can’t help but feel guilty.

Hopefully, in a couple of weeks, I’ll be able to make a new post celebrating the launch of the new site, but for today, I’m on a bit of a downer

I just wanted to make a quick post ‘bigging-up’ Plogger. It’s a PHP/MySQL based image gallery that seems to take a lot of inspiration from WordPress. (more…)

Although we’re still a while away from launching, most of the stuff that I’m able to do on the site for South Worcestershire College, has been done. Because of this, I thought I’d post a quick preview image of what the site’s homepage looks like. (more…)

First things first, I got my grades for my Independent Study back.

C+

It is not yet official, but unlikely to change. It is not as good as I would have liked, but it’s not a bad grade. It does mean, however, that I should graduate with a First with honours.

As you can see, I have a new theme on this blog. I’m looking to start learning the WordPress system and start creating themes for it, so watch this space.

Other than that, work is going well. I think I’m close to an initial launch of the site I’m building – I’ll be sure to link to it once it’s up.

Wow, so, like, it’s been AGES since I last updated this blog – sorry about that.

As anyone that was following my progress will know, I was working on finishing the Independent Study for my degree at the University of Worcester. The deadline was Thursday the 17th December 2009, and seeing as it is now the 25th January 2010, I either handed it in on time, or I didn’t. (more…)