I’m currently working on a chat feature for the Wildlife Focus site, which is run by the World Land Trust. Since this is a charitable organisation doing great work, naturally I am doing this for free.

The initial requirement is to allow registered users to be able to post comments on the webcams that are being displayed, allowing them to discuss what they see etc. In the future it will be integrated with PHPmotion, which the site uses to show user uploaded videos, allowing live discussions.

I’ve only started it, but have got quite far already. It’s being built with PHP, AJAX, MySql and of course HTML and CSS. I’ll keep you updated on how it’s going.

This is a post from my previous blog which I thought I’d transfer here as it seems to be getting some Google hits!

(Originally posted Friday, 19th June 2009)

If, like me, you’ve been using Shadowbox.js by Michael J. I. Jackson for displaying shadow boxes for images and videos (see photos and videos), then you may have been slightly annoyed to get an “invalid argument in shadowbox.js” error when viewing the site in Internet Explorer 8.

To fix this, simply go to /(your-shadowbox-directory)/skin/classic/skin.css and add the following:

#shadowbox_title {
border: 0px solid;
}
#shadowbox_info {
border: 0px solid;
}

And it will all work!