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Website Problems

Chris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:16:41 +0000

Not been posting much to the old website in recent weeks. Just moved house and theres been so much to do. There was also a minor problem with the site pages, in particular the Portfolio page. Whenever anyone clicked on Portfolio they were taken to a Blog style ‘inline’ view of the Portfolio Page and not the Portfolio style ‘Table’ view. Anyway this has now been resolved, looks like I was associating the wrong categories to the blog entries! Ooops!

Jim Wilson Photography updated

Chris — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:23:53 +0000

I’ve just finished updating Amateur Natural History & Landscape Photographer Jim Wilson’s portfolio website with 102 new images. Check it out here – www.jimwilsonphotography.co.uk

Here’s a few of my favourite shots from the latest upload. He’s not just an awesome photographer, he’s also my uncle! Cracking pics there uncle Jimmy!!

Thanks for looking, now go check out Jim’s website at www.jimwilsonphotography.co.uk.

my new website LIVE!

Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:45:37 +0000

Managed to get the site up and running tonight after spending the past few days tweaking various aspects of the code. Everything seems to be okay. I’m quite pleased with the way its turned out and with it being a Blog/CMS site I can update it regularly and keep myself entertained! :D

Off to watch part 2 of Mesrine now. Awesome movie!

Website redesign!

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:34:11 +0000

ChrisMacvie.co.uk gets a fresh new look!

New website on its way! It’s certainly been a long time coming! The old chrismacvie.co.uk website was starting to look a little dated, it served its purpose well, but it was well overdue for an update!

Redeveloping in WordPress?

The last 12 months have been super busy with everything going on at work and at Duns Motocross. I was hoping to get dipped in Content Management Systems and Blogging to some extent, but the opportunity never came about. The sites I was building at that time had no requirement for CMS or Blogs.

Recently however that has all changed. I’m not sure exactly why, perhaps its the Social Networking trend that has encouraged people to start expressing themselves more. More status updates. More tweets. More to talk about and more to blog about. I guess this is why people in general have more interest in blogs and everything to do with them. It made sense to get involved in the setting up and configuring of a blog site from scratch, especially if clients were requiring it too.

So, this website is my first real venture into the world of Blogs. Sure I have been involved in updating content in Content Management Systems before and I’ve certainly read blog or two, but I’ve never set one up until now. After reviewing the possibilities available to me (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress) I opted to go for the WordPress setup. It was a breeze to set up! I then needed a theme for my site and after spending a few days looking around the web I opted for this SilverSlide theme because it was exactly what I was looking for.

Better get back to setting things up. Whilst it took only minutes to install, the customizing and uploading of my existing data is taking many days!