Anyone who's been to this site before will notice that all the blog postings that used to live here have disappeared. I decided to move all the film, book and music reviews along with anything else not related to my life as a website developer away from here to my new personal site at www.kevinmiller.org

I've set up 301 redirects for all the old blog posts, so any links to them should get automatically redirected to the new location. If you're subscribed to the RSS feed for duneidyn.com and want to continue to receive my keyboard-based rantings, you can get the new feed by subscribing at www.kevinmiller.org/feed

Lastly, I've now put aside my unsubstantiated reservations about Twitter and now have a twitter feed available at twitter.com/duneidyn

The new website for a graphic production company based in Uxbridge. MH have some heavyweight clients on their books, ranging from Tesco, Heinz and Estee Lauder to Specialized and Universal Pictures. My part in the production of their new website has involved long hours of tinkering with Joomla modules and components to cater for their specific requirements and subsequent cross-browser CSS refinements to unify display across everything from IE6 on Windows 2000 through to Safari on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. The design for the site was carried out (unsurprisingly for a graphic production company) in-house and my job was to reproduce as closely as possible that design while fighting tooth-and-nail with the beast that is Joomla.

The website can be found at www.magharl.co.uk 

This has been my first website produced using the Expression Engine content management system. My impressions of it are very good on the whole. The possibilities open to the clever developer seem legion in number. There's a bit of a learning curve involved (as there always is for a developer using a new CMS) but after a few lightbulbs burst into life within your mind you quickly gain confidence. I found it much more intuitive to use than either Drupal or Joomla, which I've used with varying degrees of success in the past.

The ScotPHN site has a membership system and discussion forum which were easily integrated thanks to Expression Engine.

You can see the site in action at www.scotphn.net

Just completed a project to take an existing website, including the bulk of the layout style and design and completely overhaul the code underneath to conform to W3C standards. The purpose of this was to increase the number of platforms and browsers which rendered the site correctly and to increase visibility to the major search engines.

As part of this upgrade I built in easy content management via Cushy CMS.

You can view the site at www.real-m.com 

I have re-designed a website for the author Ricardo Pinto. After a lengthy, and ultimately fruitless, experiment with Drupal I ended up back with good old fashioned HTML and some PHP includes. Ricardo manages the content himself through a variety of his own ingenuity and the simple content management system available through Cushy CMS. The blog portion of his site is powered with Wordpress and the template for it has been tailored to exactly match his website layout and design.

Ricardo's trilogy The Stone Dance of the Chameleon is a hugely detailed fantasy creation depicting a world ruled with relentless cruelty by The Masters (or Chosen). 4000 years of history are about to culminate in a war which will shake this world to its foundations.

You can find the site at www.ricardopinto.com

I have completed work on a website for Montgomery Optometrists in East Lothian. The website takes its branding lead from Kodak as Montgomery Optometrists are Scotland's largest independent group of Kodak Lens Vision Centres. I made quite heavy use of jQuery on this site while performing tasks like making nice sliding navigational menus or inserting smaller HTML files within the larger page structure (for footers or sidepanels). If you are a website designer, and haven't yet messed around with jQuery, you'll no doubt like what you find at jquery.com

You can find the website at www.montgomeryoptometrists.com

I'm pleased to announce the launch of another site from these stables - Jane Kelly Make-Up. This website was produced on a very tight budget to act as the online calling card for professional make-up artist, Jane Kelly. Jane specialises in bridal and special occasion make-up.

You can find the website here - www.janekellymakeup.com

I recently finished work on the reworking and retouching of a Joomla 1.5 theme for the new Support Partners website. You can find the site here: www.support-partners.com.

Support Partners work in the field of digital video production and have worked with the BBC, ABC Australia and Disney among others. Their expertise lies mainly in setting up and subsequently supporting digital production facilities.

I've launched the gallery section of this website. It's using the Gallery2 software and I've embedded it into the Joomla CMS system powering the website as a whole.

To start things off I've finally published the pictures I took while touring France and Belgium by bike. It's only taken me 5 and a half years to get these up online but I've been busy. I took these pictures with a Canon G2 digital camera, which I thought was great at the time. More pictures, and certainly more recent pictures, will appear soon.