http://www.planetbods.org/blog/build/images/me.jpg 2008-03-10T13:50:02Z CSS, HTML and other webby stuff. tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog/Web Development/2 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, Andrew Bowden 2008-03-10T13:50:02Z 2008-03-07T19:49:15Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.776

Now I must say I do like the visual look and feel of the new BBC homepage, but it gives me yet again, another infuriating problem. It's the browser window size. I just don't want my browser window set that wide.

Andrew Bowden 2008-02-02T12:43:10Z 2008-02-02T12:40:25Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.762

Of course the sensible thing would have been not to have three different copies of Movable Type for one site in the first place. But then, there's a lot that can be said for hindsight...

Andrew Bowden 2008-01-25T09:11:25Z 2008-01-24T23:15:24Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.760

Oh poop. It appears that, with the release of Movable Type 4.1, one of the most useful plugins I've ever found for Movable Type - CustomFields - has become part of the MT "Professional Pack", which means buying a licence then. Especially annoying given in its pre-Six Apart ownership, it was essentially donation-ware for personal users.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-10T07:42:35Z 2007-11-09T21:00:00Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.722

Two versions of this post. I'll start with the executive summary. If you've moved to Movable Type 4 and find that when you get to edit an entry, the body and Extended fields are all greyed out, then I might have a cure for you!

Andrew Bowden 2007-02-10T17:24:48Z 2007-01-18T20:56:54Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.651

The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles

Andrew Bowden 2006-12-07T22:14:55Z 2006-12-07T21:34:27Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.644

Over the last few weeks, I've slowly been migrating some of my JavaScript to use the Yahoo! JavaScript event library after discovering that my own attempts at event handling, weren't working quite as well as I'd planned.

Andrew Bowden 2006-08-12T08:06:46Z 2006-08-12T07:42:22Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.619

Over the last few weeks my humble email form has been getting a slowly increasing amount of spam emails sent through is - usually with Japanese email addresses for some reason. Now as the web form just gets sent to me and doesn't go near the web site so I just sighed and put it with the rest of my spam.

Andrew Bowden 2005-12-22T23:35:30Z 2005-12-22T23:26:08Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.559

Some time ago, I released myCommute out into the wild - a personalised way to view public transport travel updates from your PC, using the BBC's Travel feeds.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-27T17:04:07Z 2005-11-27T16:55:07Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.548

So the new web forms survived their first email injection attack. Should really get the new script rolled out on the rest of the site now I suppose.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-19T16:25:10Z 2005-11-19T15:51:12Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.541

It's with a sense of trepidation that I today reactivated the first of my PHP built webforms since the email injection attack on my site nearly three weeks ago. Ever since then, I've had an ever increasing number attempts on the Hitoplive based forms which remained. None successful of course, but it's meant that I've been a little cautious about unleashing my new script on the world.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-06T21:11:18Z 2005-10-20T20:52:40Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.509

For well over a year or so, I've been working, in my spare time, on a content management project for the erstwhile Transdiffusion - a project which has, ultimately, resulted in the neglect of this blog, the upload of my photos and goodness knows what else.

Andrew Bowden 2006-05-15T21:52:12Z 2005-07-05T22:17:44Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.449

Some time ago I mentioned backstage.bbc.co.uk and a couple of ideas I'd had around travel feeds. Well I've been messing around and I'm happy to announce that myCommute now has a working prototype.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:07Z 2005-05-11T17:45:27Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.399

Well you didn't have to wait long. Backstage.bbc.co.uk went into public beta today. Pretty much everything I said about opening up the News and Sport feeds to do cool things with, applies also for the plethora of feeds listed on backstage.bbc.co.uk - be it the extensive travel information available, or the Doctor Who RSS feed.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:06Z 2005-05-10T21:40:46Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.398

A press release about RSS feeds isn't going to set the world alight. One that starts off telling you to go off and reuse the feed in exciting ways might just.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:05Z 2005-04-10T21:32:31Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.380

I spent most of the day messing with PHP, XML and Yahoo's APIs to knock together a simple, pretty basic website search script for use on Catherine's website. It's not hugely complicated but it was all new stuff.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-05T16:08:05Z 2005-01-22T17:34:08Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.332

Well here it is, Bods Central v3.0. It's only really a re-skin of the content but the old design had been in use since November 2002, and I've been itching for a change for a while.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-05T14:47:14Z 2004-09-18T14:11:49Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.290

Broken (and fixed) CSS, broken (and fixed) email forms and some PHP thrown in to boot! Yay!

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:01Z 2004-08-17T21:04:03Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.279

At long last, version 3.0 of The F-Word has gone live. Given I first started work on redesigning Catherine's site back in December 2002, you might understand that its launch is somewhat of a relief to me.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-05T16:08:05Z 2004-08-16T20:03:38Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.278

If you're using Mozilla Firefox 0.9.x - and if you are, you'll probably know it - you might be looking at a very plain webpage without any proper colours or styles on it.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-05T14:47:14Z 2004-06-11T17:52:12Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.246

I was surprised to see the site hits go up 7000 last month, a large number of people hitting my post about my recent RSS changes, and a 1000 referals from Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Mark site.

Andrew Bowden