Dan Kingsley .com

Just a quick post to say that I have spent the last couple of days creating a new website for James College Christian Union.

When doing this I decided that it needed to be as simple and clear as possible, while still clear and good looking!

I did this by using using div’s and then animating them to appear and hide.

Check the website out at http://www.james.uycu.org.uk

I have been working on the back end of my website for the last couple of days in the few spare minutes that I have had. I have added a couple of cool little features.

1. I have added my status update – imported from Facebook and Twitter. My status is normally the same in both of the these places (as explained in my previous post), and so I thought it made sense to have this imported alongside my blog for those of you who don’t have Facebook or use Twitter!

2. Music Currently Playing. I started using last.fm ages ago, but I have recently (last week) installed a couple of plug-ins to allow the music that I play in iTunes and Spotify to be added to my profile at last.fm. This creates a list of music I have recently listened to. I therefore also thought it made sense to have this displayed on my blog. I will automatically update every 2minutes. I had to do a bit of editing of the code for this last.fm plug-in to enable it to display exactly as I wanted on my site. For example I needed to add a small amount of code to check if last.fm knew the album, and if not, then not to display the it.

3. I also added a random photo generator to display six random photos from my collection.

Cool, so I have actually done this! I have spent the last couple of days updating and sorting this website out It is slowly gaining more and more content. I have set up some very cool features, including all my photos getting imported from Facebook to this site, as well as my videos from YouTube. This will hopefully allow people without Facebook to see the photos, and also it should easily allow you to find my videos without having to search YouTube.

I have updated my About page, and am in the middle of sorting out the Design and Faith pages. These should hopefully be finished within the next week or so.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be updating this new website and making it something that actually contains information… yes really!

I have just moved web servers since my last one expired, so I thought it would be a good time to kick start myself back into doing what I planned on doing! If anyone is interested, I am now using a hosting company called Webhostingpad.com.