Godalming Joigny Site Is Finished

It's finally done and up and running and everything: Finished Site

I had some slight FTP issues but they're sorted and it's all good. Quite proud of myself. Please leave any comments.

Next time back to the normal random thoughts.

Godalming Joigny Site

Sorry its taken so long but life has a tendency to get in the way. You can see my progress with the Godalming Joigny site below. Internet Explorer users - these may not work properly for you so please get a proper browser.
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I've now, after a few frustating hours, fixed the Internet Explorer issues in the final version. I've pretty much finished the site but it won't be online for a few days. I'll post a link when that happens.

Godalming Joigny Twinning Association Website

I mentioned at the end of my previous post that I was going to make a website for the Godalming Joigny Twinning Association. Godalming is a medium-sized town in Surrey famed for being the first town to have electric street lighting among other things. Joigny is a similar-sized town in Burgundy, France with lots of vineyards and whatnot.

Currently there is no site and the only web presence the Twinning Association has is a small listing on the Town Council website.

Now then, I started with looking at a few other random twinning websites but they all struck me as a bit rubbish for various different reasons (apologies to the people who made them). See a few examples at http://www.alresford-twinning.org.uk/, http://petersfieldtwinningassociation.org.uk and http://www.bognortwinning.co.uk/. Some are boring, some have text over busy images and others have things overlapping. All in all I hope I can do better but we'll see.

I've had some different design ideas and mocked them up and here they are:




I've done the panorama for Joigny:


I'll come back when I've done more.

My New Website

I've just finished my new website at www.chamberlaindesign.co.uk. It's much better than the previous one because its cleaner, simpler and generally more professional.
The main difficulty I had was with the JavaScript to show and hide the different page content based on which button is pressed. I had some help with this from my friend Tez Grant (www.teztez.co.uk).
Please leave any comments you have about the site, good or bad, on this blog post.

Anyway, one more thing - I've been asked by the Chairman of the Godalming Joigny Twinning Association (who happens to be my dad) to design and build their website. I'll do blog posts with any developments so you can watch my progress, if any.

The World Cup

You know I never thought I'd write about the World Cup with anything other than disdain. This is down to one thing and one thing only - repeated exposure to football. This was provided by one Edward Barker, Esq. and was achieved through a mixture of PES, boredom and general abuse.

Now I'm not saying I actually enjoy football. In fact I have always described it as 23 men running after an inflated pig's bladder watched by millions of idiots. This opinion has now been tempered somewhat and, for the first time ever, I actually slightly care who wins. I am even going to watch as many England games as I can due to a stupid promise I made and I'm going to cheer for England.

So without further ado...

COME ON ENGLAND!!!

There, I hope you're happy Ed!

The Papers

This is still so true.