BBC Foyle and West

The BBC in Londonderrystrokederrycityorjustfoyle have launched two new websites for people in the west of Northern Ireland, or indeed anyone in general who likes to keep abreast of events there.

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Keithblog on Ubuntu

This is what Keithblog looks like on an open source operating system. My Acer laptop and I had a slight falling out when Windows decided not to load, so this is the result. It’s a substantially sped up laptop with just about everything you could possibly want. Well except iTunes, Macromedia stuff and FrontPage, but [...]

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CSS Bits

Serif fonts
font-family: georgia, “times new romans”, times, serif;
Border - (border: [size] [style] [colour];)
border:1px solid gray;
Text Decoration (text-decoration: [none/underline/overline/line-through/blink]
text-decoration: none;

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Conservatives Northern Ireland website

Over the weekend I was browsing the local party websites, there’s an election coming up, when I stumbled across this monstrosity. The Conservatives Northern Ireland (or should that be “Northern Irish Conservatives”, don’t suppose it matters there aren’t that many of them) seem to be looking to improve their 2003 success at Stormont.
To be fair, [...]

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First piece of coursework completed

COM439C2 - Multimedia Practice
You are required to develop a single Web page for the subject of your choice. The page should be illustrated with an appropriate range of multimedia elements such as images, audio and video (if possible).

The page should contain a number of hyperlinks to further information about your subject…
My chosen subject was tourist [...]

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Microsoft Expression Web - the new FrontPage

Just downloaded one of the replacements for Microsoft Frontpage - Microsoft Expression Web. Basically there are two types of FrontPage replacements, SharePoint (which is part of the new office suite) and Expression (a new group of graphic programs aimed at developers and designers) . I’m using Expression simply because my host doesn’t support SharePoint extensions.
I [...]

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What is it with PHP and not working?

I’m getting a growing dislike for anything which involves PHP to work properly and so far all I have to show for it is this. One thing I do like is that PHP has more than a passing resemblance to JAVA, which I do know as a language. One problem is how to get the [...]

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