Dun Eidyn Digital Design. Web Design. Edinburgh, Scotland

My new online home

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:49:58 +0000

Anyone who's been to this site before will notice that all the blog postings that used to live here have disappeared. I decided to move all the film, book and music reviews along with anything else not related to my life as a website developer away from here to my new personal site at www.kevinmiller.org

I've set up 301 redirects for all the old blog posts, so any links to them should get automatically redirected to the new location. If you're subscribed to the RSS feed for duneidyn.com and want to continue to receive my keyboard-based rantings, you can get the new feed by subscribing at www.kevinmiller.org/feed

Lastly, I've now put aside my unsubstantiated reservations about Twitter and now have a twitter feed available at twitter.com/duneidyn

Magnet Harlequin

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The new website for a graphic production company based in Uxbridge. MH have some heavyweight clients on their books, ranging from Tesco, Heinz and Estee Lauder to Specialized and Universal Pictures. My part in the production of their new website has involved long hours of tinkering with Joomla modules and components to cater for their specific requirements and subsequent cross-browser CSS refinements to unify display across everything from IE6 on Windows 2000 through to Safari on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. The design for the site was carried out (unsurprisingly for a graphic production company) in-house and my job was to reproduce as closely as possible that design while fighting tooth-and-nail with the beast that is Joomla.

The website can be found at www.magharl.co.uk

Scottish Public Health Network

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This has been my first website produced using the Expression Engine content management system. My impressions of it are very good on the whole. The possibilities open to the clever developer seem legion in number. There's a bit of a learning curve involved (as there always is for a developer using a new CMS) but after a few lightbulbs burst into life within your mind you quickly gain confidence. I found it much more intuitive to use than either Drupal or Joomla, which I've used with varying degrees of success in the past.

The ScotPHN site has a membership system and discussion forum which were easily integrated thanks to Expression Engine.

You can see the site in action at www.scotphn.net

Real Marketing

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just completed a project to take an existing website, including the bulk of the layout style and design and completely overhaul the code underneath to conform to W3C standards. The purpose of this was to increase the number of platforms and browsers which rendered the site correctly and to increase visibility to the major search engines.

As part of this upgrade I built in easy content management via Cushy CMS.

You can view the site at www.real-m.com

Ricardo Pinto

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I have re-designed a website for the author Ricardo Pinto. After a lengthy, and ultimately fruitless, experiment with Drupal I ended up back with good old fashioned HTML and some PHP includes. Ricardo manages the content himself through a variety of his own ingenuity and the simple content management system available through Cushy CMS. The blog portion of his site is powered with Wordpress and the template for it has been tailored to exactly match his website layout and design.

Ricardo's trilogy The Stone Dance of the Chameleon is a hugely detailed fantasy creation depicting a world ruled with relentless cruelty by The Masters (or Chosen). 4000 years of history are about to culminate in a war which will shake this world to its foundations.

You can find the site at www.ricardopinto.com