True i do have a personal attachment to promoting this, the artist in question is the sister of a most excellent friend, but personal ties aside this is such a great idea that i still feel i need to shout about it.

Calendar Songs :

Calendar Girl lives and works in London where her disco alter-ego is a vocalist for big fun funkateers Freeform Five. She started Calendar Songs in October 2006 as a project that could only live online as people joined the project as listeners and collaborators. Read the rules of Calendar Songs here. The idea was to have a record made at the end of 12 months. But who knows what can happen in a year?

Email Calendar Girl at:
calendargirl@calendarsongs.com
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—————-WINNER HAS BEEN CONFIRMED——————-

Hello to all of you broke-as-hell students, …I have a little competition for you.

A client of mine, Incognito have the need for a Flash Banner to be made. Initially this banner will be displayed on the Lonely Planet site (that is some serious exposure), but will subsequently be used for a host of other sites such as World Traveller,Guardian Travel, Times Travel Guide ……

The important bits first, ….this is PAID, ..there is a prize of £200 for the winner.

Now comes the specs:

The banner must be a Flash Banner with a static GIF alternative.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday 23rd May 6pm !!

DIMENSIONS: W300px X H250px

SIZE: No larger than 35k !!

EXTRA: the banner can, and probably should LOOP, but there must NOT be audio.

MEDIA: Please check the Incognito site to see what they are about, ….i have on my machine ALL of their design assets, images, EVERYTHING, ..but it is not postable on here, ..so you will have to COME AND FIND ME IN MY OFFICE, ..or CONTACT ME BY EMAIL to get these, …which i am sure you will be able to do.

I trust this is all of the info you require, ..please contact me if you require any further info.

—————-COMPETITION NOW CLOSED——————-

Thank you everyone who entered, …the client is the final judge

—————-WINNER HAS BEEN CONFIRMED——————-
The competition has been won by Arthur.A, ..Thank you mate, ..very nice indeed.
Not on the lonely planet site at the time of writing, but already on EcoTube

—————-WINNER HAS BEEN CONFIRMED——————-

This workshop is aimed at people with no experience or knowledge in Web Hosting and Domain management but know that they would greatly benefit from their own server space.

We will cover the following topics:

• Hosting Explained
• Domains Explained
• Setting up emails
• FTP and file storage/access
• Database setup
• Installing 3rd Party files/applications (EG: WordPress :) )

…and in my humble opinion that should be enough to cement in the mind in one evening.

If you do have any specific requests for additional items you ould like me to cover, then please mail me before the workshop and i will see what i can do to incorporate your requests.

The workshop will take place on 4th June | 18:30 @ Qantm UK, Angel, London (full address details on Qantm Site when you register.

To register for the Workshop please do so @ Qantm UK where you can view all other available Free Workshops.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This time it is a holiday double-bill / kite-fest, …for it is ATMOSPHERE ‘08 first in Devon, …and although it does not strt in any official context until the weekend, why not abuse the working system and go and get a weeks practice in first, ..’tis very important you know, ..especially if you need all the practice you can get, for no sooner has Atmosphere ended (and we are talking a matter of hours here) …it is time to head out on our long journey to Dahkla Lagoon in Morocco, ..about which i could speak more of now, ..but me thinks the photos and travelogue/long ong story that will follow, will say it better than i could imagine now.

So what is the point of this post, ..other than inspiring deep feelings of jealousy amongst my new subscribers, ..it is easier than setting up one of those default email responder things, …which can never include an image of where i am, …so think of me, ..feel for me, ..it will be tough, ..but someone has to do it :)

…oh yes, ..almost forgot, ….back on the 8th May, .. :)

We will be basing the Workshop solely on Themes, WordPress functions and looking into ‘the loop’.

This is obviously an advanced lecture and requires the following to gain the most from it:

• HTML/CSS knowledge
• Wordpress installed on a web server to which you have FTP access
• SandBox installed as a theme (we can do this at the beginning of the Workshop)
• Basic understanding of PHP functions (not essential)

However if you do not possess these skills and still want to attend just so see what is going on, then do feel free, but unfortunately I will not be able to spend time going through the fundamentals.

The workshop will take place on 19th May | 18:30 @ Qantm UK, Angel, London (full address details on Qantm Site when you register.

To register for the Workshop please do so @ Qantm UK where you can view all other available Free Workshops.

So i will start the ball rolling in the comments by listing my chosen few (some come, some go, few stay), and those of you who see me on a Monday morning will of course follow suit or incur my wrath, the rest of the world, no wrath, just play fair, if you read this and think, hmm, interesting, ..tell us which feeds you find interesting.

And Finally, ..before you ask where these lovely Feed icons came from, and before i get in trouble for not leaving their url in the link title (sorry guys, need to tell my users info in the title, ..but this should make up for it)…

click on the image to grab them.

…ADDITIONAL (16-04-2008)

Just stumbled across another lovely post with loads of free RSS icons.

Not any more, ..HTML includes are here, with a little help from our ever more dependable friend JavaScript.

I won’t bore you with the details, head on over to the Official Hinclude Page to read all about it, ..as you may not be too surprised to here it follows the emerging pattern of JS file in header ,and then covert call in code.

Very very simple, …..but with one slight point of interest, of which i have not decided if it is a plus or a minus yet. Hidden source.

You see the page will uses a CLIENT side include rather than a SERVER side include, which of course has big advantages in terms of loading times and monopolizing the browsers caching abilities, ..again read the technicalities over at Hinclude, ..what i think is interesting is this potential hiding of source, …which of course is not truly hidden (view source, find url, paste link into browser). …but it does mean that essentially code can be hidden from search bots.

Why would you want to do this, …a few reasons spring to mind, most slightly dubious, but nonetheless, reasons spring to mind :)

For you, i will leave you to make your own mind up, ..and if you are interested in seeing a stripped down verson, i have setup this naked Hinclude Test Page on my server.

Click here to see what i am talking about

*be patient with this one takes a while to load, but is definitely worth the wait.

Real, Flash, 3D, Poser, all of the above, ..you decide.

Video On The Web - Flash Video
A look at the current state of the market with specific attention to FLV and it’s current market and technological position.

Video On The Web - Preparing Video
A look at techniques when recording video for the wb, with reference to lighting and sound setup with accompanying case studies.

Video On The Web - Glossary of Terms
What does that word mean again?