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A mixture of musings on web design & development, history, and life

New website launched: Henry Blake

Henry Blake

I am proud to announce the release of a new website, for actor and musician Henry Blake.

Henry began professional acting in his native home of New Zealand at the age of 12 and was the youngest ever to be nominated for Best Newcomer at the Chapmann Trip Theatre Awards for his performance as ‘Boy’ in Waiting for Godot at Circa Theatre. Henry is a musician, singing and playing guitar from an early age and playing in various rock/punk bands.

You can read more about Henry in his biography.

Henry got in touch with me last year after seeing my work on Toby Manley and asked if I could create a website for himself and another actor (more on that later). I was delighted to help and have been working on both of them these past few months.

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SocioFluid – HTML5

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Since I’ve been using the SocioFluid plugin by Adrian Ianculescu on this blog for a while I thought I’d make some changes so it outputs valid HTML5 code.

SocioFluid is a Social Bookmarking Plugin, displaying small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to mac effect.

I have now done so and made it available to download.

Adrian’s version was originally guaranteed to work with WordPress 2.5.1 but it seems to work fine with 3.0.1 here on this blog.

Grid Focus – HTML5 WordPress Theme

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I have taken Derek Punsalan’s Grid Focus WordPress theme (which is the theme used on this blog, although it’s slightly modified) and converted it to HTML5.

With Derek’s permission, this conversion is now available to download from this site.

Derek’s original works in WordPress 2.6+ and I can confirm that it works in WordPress 3.0.4.

Let me know what you think!

Twitter Tools 2.0 and WordPress 2.8.6 Issues

I’ve been using Twitter Tools for a number of weeks now, automatically having some of my Twitter posts displayed on this blog. However I noticed today that they had stopped working. I knew that I had changed my Twitter password recently and realised that I had forgotten to change it in Twitter Tools. No problem, this can be resurrected easily enough I thought.

Except that it wasn’t.

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New theme for iandevlin.com/blog

I know this blog hasn’t been up for long, but I had already begun to dislike the previous theme (Scrapbook) as I felt there was too much wasted space at the top causing users to have to scroll down to read any content. I know that in this day and age most people have larger screens and higher resolutions, but still.

Anyway, this morning whilst updating WordPress to the latest version, 2.8.5, I also decided to look for another theme and came across Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan at 5THIRTYONE. I liked the clean, content focused layout and after installing it, was amazed at the flexibility of the widgets that can be used, so I’m sure it’ll be here to stay, at least for a while!

Let me know what you think?