Charmed-Designs.co.uk

Competitor Analysis: Custom Home Pages – iGoogle

Alex — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:16:46 +0000

With my project, I have the ideal aim of people using this website as a home page for their browser that allows them easy access to the sites and services they visit daily as well as a way to connect with their friends as a hub of their online activity.

Ruby derailed

Alex — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:45:14 +0000

After essentially a solid weekend trying to get Ruby on Rails to work on Windows so I can actually learn it, finally I gave up trying and have loaded it all up on Ubuntu instead.

Ruby on Rails at 155mph

Alex — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:21:56 +0000

So, I’ve decided that I should look into the Ruby on Rails framework (at last) for my 3rd year Uni project to try and streamline some of the work that needs done for it.

Questionnaire

Alex — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:08:20 +0000

If you would be kind enough to spare a minute to fill in this small questionnaire, it would be very much appreciated. This will aid me in one of my University modules as well as providing me with vital information about how this website is used so that I can improve it. Thank you.

Behind the Scenes

Alex — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:14:31 +0000

For those of you who may be interested, this is just a quick run down of what lies behind the scenes of this web site and what software I’ve used to make it. Just for the hell of it:

Charmed Designs is Back

Alex — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:42:25 +0000

It’s been a few months, but Charmed Designs is now back in action and rocking a whole new look.

Following a bit of a server disaster in the summer, a lot of data was lost across all of my websites – including this one. I had a lot of the static data, like the design – but had utterly lost the dynamic data – the database. It was apparent that the only solution was to rebuild the entire website. So, I redirected the domain to another of my sites and ignored it for a few months, obviously.