Mini Controllers - modular page design
28 Feb 2007
The MVC pattern adds some clarity to what should go where when it comes to designing a page which requires some data from a data source. The model gets the data from the data source; the controller might do something with that data and then the view will display what the controller passes to it. If the page handles only a single function that's rather easy to both ...
Site Update: Version 3
20 Feb 2007
After a while in development, I have updated the site to a new look and some leaner code. The things I've been working on for the past few weeks are:
- Implement full version control for the source.
- Make the site valid XHTML.
- Replace the use of external libraries with Cake functions where possible.
- Redesign the look for the site.
- Make it...
Colour Contrast
02 Feb 2007
As some may know, I'm in the process of redesigning this site, triggered in part because of the totally inaccessible manner in which it is displayed in IE7 (I would usually ignore that but it's one thing to not look too good, it's quite another to put the buttons in places that are unreachable). So, IE7 isn't all bad, it gave me something to investigate :). As part of the redesign I've...