Another new site launch from FCS web design, Nottingham – Yates Engineering. This site replaced a previous design and Joomla installation and now uses the Textpattern CMS with some customised plugins. Graphic design by Gareth Roberts, welding photography and site development by FCS Websites.

See more at Yates Engineering, Nottingham.

Launched today is a new site for Distant Horizons, promoting their Lake District self catering accommodation. Lots of lovely PNG transparency going on with this site, and an overlapped, textured design to break up the straight lines…

See more at FCS Websites, Nottingham web designers.

This cartoon seems more appropriate than ever at this point.

I saw Trading Eye quite a while ago but did not have time to have a good play with it. Now I have, so downloaded the trial localhost version and got busy.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am a geek/nerd/whatever but installation was not easy. It needed a PHP loader module adding to my local MAMP setup before it would even let me do anything. Then it wouldn’t accept the license file, and I think it was because I used the wrong program to extract the files from the downloaded installer zip. Not very smooth.

However, with the help of the Trading Eye forums and a large dose of stubbornness I got it installed and working. The admin system is gorgeous yet simple and has all the functionality I or my clients will need for running a small shop.

I am hoping that an upcoming project has the budget to use Trading Eye as I would like to offer this as standard due to its accessibility and standards compliance straight out of the box.

More to follow when I have had a good look…

Nick

Another new Textpattern site launch from FCS Websites this week – for Lake District Boat Charter, a company specialising in yacht hire on Ullswater in the Lake District. Some fancy PNG transparency going on with this one, and it works in IE6 too!