01 Sep 2010 at 22:11 by Andy
I’m very happy to announce the launch of the latest ZigPress client site – a new site for the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform, replacing their older site which had been running for a couple of years.
The Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform is run by the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA), an EU organisation based in Malta that is responsible for various educational programmes across the EU. The Youth Platform aims to bring together young people from Mediterranean countries to facilitate networking, understanding, education and participation.
For this project I enlisted the help of my colleague Darko Strnisa, who has worked with me on a number of projects and who created the initial design. I built the site using WordPress, with a custom theme based on Darko’s design and an appropriate selection of plugins.
One section of the site (the database of potential partner organisations for cross-border projects) is yet to be completed, and will be added in the coming weeks.
I’m particularly happy to have been given this project for two reasons: firstly, I managed to win the contract in the face of stiff competition from major established web agencies in Malta, and secondly this is a very high profile site, with a potential audience of millions and links from many other EU sites.
As an added bonus, I can now spell Mediterranean correctly almost all the time…
Yesterday, Twitter updated its API (the method by which websites and other programs access Twitter feeds) so that a particular kind of authentication (oAuth) is required. “Big woop”, you may say, or possibly “what are you talking about?”. Well, if you use WordPress, it may affect you. What it means is that any WordPress plugins [...]
30 Aug 2010 at 07:38 by Andy
This post is not about overclocking (changing hardware settings to increase the speed of your processor) – there are plenty of places on the web that talk about how to overclock various PCs. I’m talking about the situation where you buy a new laptop or PC, boot it up for the first time, and find [...]
05 Aug 2010 at 16:41 by Andy
Not really a web design related post, but it’s certainly relevant to my work, and I know there are an awful lot of Acer Aspire One 751 owners out there who, though they love this charming little netbook, have encountered problems similar to the ones that have affected my machine recently. First of all, a [...]
26 Jul 2010 at 07:38 by Andy
Being so built-up and packed to the rafters with IT companies, it’s hardly surprising that Malta has a good selection of free Wi-Fi hotspots. You can easily connect at the airport, at any MacDonalds restaurant, and in one or two public piazzas in Valletta, for instance. However, if you need to meet clients in a [...]
