Reply to: Great way to spend a Sunday

[MyUserName]

I got up at 3.45am to drive someone to Heathrow - came back and went to bed until midday.
Then had some friends over one to babysit and one to help Mrs MUN and me SORT THE GARAGE!

We spent about 4-5 hours dragging things out, sorting what it was etc and filing it appropriately. Now the garage is minus a load of stuff I took to the dump, minus a load of stuff that has gone to a charity shop and everything else is actually on shelves etc. Our show kit is stored in the trailer with amour and weapons where we can easily reach them for training. Sandbags, sledges, large water bottles and other exercise equipment is also now where I can get it. Wooo hooooo!!!!

Back in the house for pizza and Dr Who.

[FiveTimes]

I spent sunday up and down ladders painting the dining room. This was after I spent Saturday painting the dining room ceiling.
However I must admit it look nice now.

[Scrag Meister]

I spent 8-2 on Sunday waiting in for the Currys KnowHow ( I don't think they do really) cretins to arrive and install my new cooker.

After ringing 3 times they tell me they have wrongly sent out a one man team for a dual fuel install.

Right now I am waiting in for the Currys KnowHow cretins to arrive again, they were supposed to be here around 8a.m. Late already!!!

Update: Now they aren't going to be here til 11:30-12:00. WTF.

Am I dumb?!!

[ctdctd]

A client wants a Wordpress website....

Somebody's gonna faint when they get the invoice

Funny, I've just been reading a book to find out how to convert my website into Wordpress (I'm going to buy a theme from the site you recommended CH).

Tee Hee, I see Cliphead's a Pilchard again

Oh and Cojak, don't give him your address - you may be this client of which he speaks.

[Cliphead]

I hate these fancy fonts. A web "expert" thinks we should be using Belleza on our site. Hate it. REAL MEN use Times New Roman or Arial or Courier.

Re Wordpress, I would not use it myself as doing too many quirky things but it seems very polished in modern browsers, error checks=zero. Roll back the IE versions a bit and it really screws up. Does that matter? Not sure.

Arial all the way

Quick and simple WP has it for some client's web needs, only rarely do I have to do it all from scratch where a CMS just doesn't cut it.

[xoggoth]

I hate these fancy fonts. A web "expert" thinks we should be using Belleza on our site. Hate it. REAL MEN use Times New Roman or Arial or Courier.

Re Wordpress, I would not use it myself as doing too many quirky things but it seems very polished in modern browsers, error checks=zero. Roll back the IE versions a bit and it really screws up. Does that matter? Not sure.

[Doggy Styles]

On the positive side I managed to persuade my Plan B partner that MS Comic Sans ain't a good font. He still likes it but I have conveyed to him the fact that anyone in the graphics trade will laugh at it.

If I may be so bold, anyone apart from knob-ends will laugh at it.

It harbours a subliminal message, something like: "Look at me, I am a c***."

[Cliphead]

...I say that as someone whose family is deeply religious. I can respect their beliefs as long as they don't push it on me, but pushing it on strangers is totally out of order.

+1

[Sysman]

Joomla's not so bad. Had to create a graphic logo for a client site last week and the typeface they wanted - comic sans. They don't want to listen I don't care it's all billable.

I must admit it was the type of person recommending it down the pub that put me off the product.

The CMS product I really refused to work with was Typo3, which being a German thing was popular here. When the default admin password was a reference to the Bible verse that my father in his religiously cranky latter years used to quote at me, I didn't want anything whatsoever to do with the product.

Initially I was all prepared to convert old documentation from the original Star Office format to the then current OpenOffice, or Word, or whatever, and I had the tools to do that, but the religious arguments on their (private, not accepted on Usenet) made me say a big NO.

Sorry but I don't deal with religious types who want to promote their faith through a technical product. I say that as someone whose family is deeply religious. I can respect their beliefs as long as they don't push it on me, but pushing it on strangers is totally out of order.

P.S. Now there's a Sabbath thread for ya

Thinks it's time for the last pint or two in the pub.

[Cliphead]

Ohmygod, not Joomla! Please! Every self-professed Linux type I come across down the pub tells anyone who wants to listen that it's the bees' knees.

Joomla's not so bad. Had to create a graphic logo for a client site last week and the typeface they wanted - comic sans. They don't want to listen I don't care it's all billable.

[Sysman]

Not

A client wants a Wordpress website, sure no problem what look and feel have a look at some themes.

So they want to see a selection on themes installed on their domain with test data, a complete pain in the arse but set up a number of them to look at tomorrow.

What's the chances they'll want some other framework like Joomla

Somebody's gonna faint when they get the invoice

Ohmygod, not Joomla! Please! Every self-professed Linux type I come across down the pub tells anyone who wants to listen that it's the bees' knees.

On the positive side I managed to persuade my Plan B partner that MS Comic Sans ain't a good font. He still likes it but I have conveyed to him the fact that anyone in the graphics trade will laugh at it.

Actually quite a cool day here. I chilled out for most of the day, it was sunny in the afternoon and I thoroughly enjoyed Jarvis Cocker's show on R6 with a David Attenborough Special - well worth a listen and available on iPlayer for the next 7 days.

The Lyre bird imitating a chainsaw was something quite special.

P.S. Still light at 8pm here let spring commence!

[eek]

I spent mine with the family hiking around Ullswater. Just had 3 pints of Cumbrian ale to rehydrate and believe it or not actually got a bit of sunburn today.

Spent mine driving 450 miles north. Not the most fun I've ever had.

Now need to see why a server died on Wednesday night. Chaos monkey testing worked fine so everything recovered itself auto-magically but I still want to know what the problem was.

[oracleslave]

I spent mine with the family hiking around Ullswater. Just had 3 pints of Cumbrian ale to rehydrate and believe it or not actually got a bit of sunburn today.

[cojak]

I'm after a nice, clean theme but without any flash graphics (and of course I'll cough up for the live site)

[Cliphead]

Funny, I've just been reading a book to find out how to convert my website into Wordpress (I'm going to buy a theme from the site you recommended CH).

If you want to test out I have several I could send you. If you want live do the decent thing