Hastings Musical Festival

The syllabus for the 2010 Musical Festival is now available. There is a lot of exciting news about the Festival, not least the fact that Roger Daltrey of The Who is judging the Rock Band competitions!

Why not pop over and have a look.

Finished another site

I've just designed a simple one page site for a local petshop. This includes 5 selectable templates, full Content Management of the page and randomisation of special offers.

A Shameless Plug

I'm currently working on a couple of ideas with a talented web designer at the moment, Ben from B A C Productions. He is a specialist in Zen Cart and also provides a photo printing service with very reasonable prices; http://www.a3prints.co.uk/

Another Site Finished

Another site that has just been completed is that of http://www.samphire.it. This is a completely custom site designed for a racing tipster. The code is a mixture of PHP, Javascript and HTML with a back-end MySQL database.

The site features full CMS on all pages with automatic updating of results summaries in real time. In addition, it links through to PayPal for handling subscriptions.

Just finished a modification for Zen Cart

I've just finished a modification for Zen Cart that permits variable pricing of products by multi-dimensional attributes. This is ideal for all those Zen Cart owners who sell products such as custom doors, carpets, tiles etc. The modified code is 4 PHP files that need to be uploaded to your store and over-write the existing files. All database modifications are taken care of within the code.

Removing add-ons from Internet Explorer 7

Start Internet Explorer.
On the Tools menu, click Manage Add-ons.
Click the name of the add-on.
Use one of the following methods:
Click Update ActiveX to replace the add-on with the current version. This option is not available for all add-ons.
To enable an add-on, click Enable, and then click OK.
To disable an add-on, click Disable, and then click OK.
You may have to restart Internet Explorer

If that doesn't work, then try this;
Go to Start > Run, type iexplore –extoff and press Enter.
then internet explorer should load and you can remove the add-ons from the tools menu

New service from Roy Penfold Computer Service

I am pleased to announce that Roy Penfold Computer Services can now supply hardware. Please visit http://www.roypenfold.co.uk/page19.html and browse our on-line store.

Returning an alphabetical list consisting of the first letter in MySQL

In a recent project, one task involved returning the unique first letter of the data held in a MySQL field in order to provide hyperlink navigation through the web-site as opposed to a drop down menu.

This was accomplished using the MySQL statement below;

SELECT DISTINCT (left( [field], 1 ) )FROM `[table]` ORDER BY [field]