Chris Owens is a thirty year old web designer, developer, tech-head and enthusiastic amateur photographer currently living in Lancashire, UK. This is his home on the web so pull up a chair and make yourself comfy.
FIFA 2010 Frustations
FIFA 2010 – Buggy, un-tested, un-finished or all of the above?
To be honest I’ll go with all of the above. After investing many hours into two seasons of the manager mode in FIFA 2010 and getting a team of world beating superstars to join my lowly Bolton team, it seems that FIFA 2010 now refuses [...]
Wordpress as a CMS and the plugins to help
At Cube3 we’re starting to use Wordpress more and more as a low cost content management sytem (CMS) for small-to-medium sized sites. Initially my concerns (having last used at Wordpress in the 1.x era) were that Wordpress was too heavily geared towards blogging and not so much towards content management, however after upgrading to 2.5 [...]
Xbox Gamercard Plugin or API?
I’ve been having problems with the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress Plugin… it keeps breaking, failing to download the images and inserting error messages which causes the layout of my blog to fail.
Does anyone know of a good Xbox 360 Gamercard PHP API plugin or standalone code that I can integrate into the site?
Photo by Tom [...]
Finally done!
Well its taken a little bit longer than expected, but I finally managed to put a few hours into the blog this weekend have have the first working version of my theme uploaded and running on the site. No doubt there will be a few rough edges that will come to light in the next [...]
Struggling through & What do I do?
As mentioned in my last post, I’m currently trying to put the final touches to the WordPress theme I have been working on for the last few months (it’s been an on and off kinda thing) and there are a few bits and pieces that I’m having a few issues with – but I’ll suss [...]
90% Done
Just thought I’d post a quick update on the blog redesign.
I’ve got everything working as it should, and almost everything styled correctly with only the “single post page” and comments page to style and iron out a few bugs.
I’ve packaged it up as a Wordpress theme so that I can make changes easily and keep [...]
Front Row on an External Monitor
Having spent an hour tonight trying figure out why Front Row refused to work with my “external monitor” (A Sony Bravia TV), I thought I would share the solution I found.
Normally, to allow Front Row to work with an external monitor, all I do is:
System Preferences » Displays » Arrangement
And then drag the grey menu [...]
Almost there now…
I’m still plodding along with the new design, with just the comment page remaining before I start integrating it with Wordpress. I’d ideally like to get it completed this week so that when GTA4 is released I’m not too distracted from the task in hand.
Also, I’ve just orded 4x 43″ Westcott Umbrellas (2 white and [...]
I’m busy working away…
…on a new design for the blog!
I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging for some time now, and after a few years out in the cold and several broken promises, I think I’ve been bitten by the blogging bug once more.
I’ve been busy working on the design and coding away and you can check [...]