I've been so busy the last few days that I have had no time to do anything on the site. But I have to get it up and running, so I gave it a very basic design and got it online. You can check it out at Surname Certificates – OK, I know it needs [...]
Spent an hour this morning getting the foundation of the site in place. I went to the HTML Layout page and chose a suitable layout, then I integrated the search facility and the paypal button. Also the image swapping. All seems to work OK, so the next job is to make the site look better. [...]
Because I'm going to offer 2 or 3 different style of paper, I want the customer to be able to choose and see the paper they are buying. My initial idea was to just have the 3 styles on the page – job done. Then I thought how cool it would be to have the [...]
On the site I want to cut down on customer contact (eg, emailing to ask if XYZ surname is available) – so I definitely want some sort of search box. I have all the surnames in a txt file (I think there are about 50,000 surnames). So it's pretty large. A while back I worked [...]
Haven't posted in the last few days as I've been having too much fun in the snow! Anyway, in order to actually print the certificates it's obvious that I need a halfway decent printer. It only needs to be balck and white but of a decent quality of print – which means a laser printer. [...]
Obviously a printed surname certificate needs to be printed on something! Plain white paper will do, but it's possible to buy pre-printed paper which is made by a company called "Deca Dry". I ended up getting mine from my local stationers and from the local hobby/craft shop. I'm also going to order in some specialist [...]
Just a short note to remind myself of a good idea I had. Once the "surname search" is coded, I want to try to link it into a twitter feed (so the tweets automatically appear). I found a Twitter PHP class at http://twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps which might do the job. Eg (on Twitter); Someone just successfully searched [...]
As I already mentioned I already used to run a surname site, so I have some knowledge of the available software. As I recall the software I used to use was Australian in origin and it was fairly good. But for this new site I want to use something different. A little bit of research [...]
Today I did not have time for any more work on the new website. But my plans are formulating… Website First stop will be to go to the Layout Gala to get a pre-made design template. I will use this as a base and come up with some graphics and layout ideas to make it [...]
