Launched at last
Today I finally launched my wordpress powered UGC site. check it out at
Darren Stuart's random stuff
Feb 18
Feb 14
stuff and things again
Still building my CMS, have made some design changes which will make the speed of content as fast as it can be. It will generate html files now instead of rendering them by building the page out. The reason behind this is because I plan on offering a hosted version which will host the admin side and ftp the published site to the web designers current hosting. However thats a while away yet. Just need to get version 1 complete.
I am also very close on a couple of other sites…. arrggg to many site ideas and not enough time :p
Feb 02
Building a product to sell
I am working on a CMS for web designers with zero coding needed or database work.
It’s target market is designers that know xhtml and css.
I have built the page renderer and file system out and now am working on the admin interface and email form hanlder and I am ready with a beta.
The best thing about it was once I had built out the functionality I tested it by dropping in my stuartmedia html and it worked with no errors. I am really proud of the code behind the renderer. 120 odd lines of code which will not break ever :p
The only requirements is a web host that supports asp.net 2.0.
How it works
The designer marks up their design.
They drop my cms files onto their hosting
They create the templates using the admin area and drop their html into it.
The templates are made up of 2 parts head and body content
Inside the body there are 2 custom tags, 1 for page content and 1 for navigation.
They can then add pages, each page has a docType, title, template and content.
They can choose to ignore the nav and just have their own hard coded one in template or they can use the navigation wizard to build out the nav using html.
The admin area will be able to be styled using css so they can brand it with no problem.
Thats it. oh and its damn quick too.
If you want a stupid simple CMS that does not get in the way and involves zero code, easy for clients to use and has a built in formhandler for email forms then stay tuned.
Future features will be a news, galleries, rss, catelogue, paypal, and some more settings around the content editor and uploading.
I will call it updateable pages.
now I need to find a good price point.
Jan 29
playing with Sprout
Playing with wordless diagrams
what happens when I get fireworks out and doodle.
Jan 28
Best laid plans and all that
well after a week of doing odds and sods work wise I think this week will be better and I should hopefully get some projects done.
nearly finished a wordpress project for a friend which was real interesting. I really enjoyed getting back into hacking up wordpress themes. My only complaint about wordpress is some of the functions give you back formatted html and the functions themselves are quite cryptic.
so this week, I have 2 sites to build in wordpress and 1 to build in bbpress and also 1 asp.net site and a brochure site with blog… busy week then :p
Jan 18
nothing to see here
well if anyone is reading this I am nearly there on a couple of projects and will start annoucing stuff next week.
Jan 16
how to get ClearType with firefox
Control Panel -> Display -> Appearance tab -> Effects button -> Check “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” -> Set ClearType in the drop-down
Jan 10
nothing to see here
Nothing much going on today, Did some business admin and played with an idea I have for a music related site. Tonight I am going to work on one of my ideas that will make me money as soon as I have it working IE I can sell it to my current clients…
Really enjoying twitter at the moment just have to get more people to follow and get some feckers to follow me…