Storebuilder Blog - Site Building

Yesterday I fannied around for about three hours trying to make the eventlist module display properly and in the end I gave up when I found a really neat module that has loads of options for displaying the data and I used that.

And it looks pretty damn good. I've set up the games that I got in a newsletter from wink bingo and then repeated the events - once they are in they're in! No need to keep updating the data every day. All that's needed now is to add in some more games and it's all done.

The eventlist module works well and I'm happy with it. Originally I planned to use the Jevents component but then I discovered that you needed PHP5 to run it.

I thought about moving the site to another server that does support PHP5 but eventlist does the job OK. I had to remove the version checking from the nextevent module to make it compatible.

So now the bingo site is almost done. Unfortunately it's one of those sites that you have to keep updating with new promotions and offers but if it converts anywhere near what the other bingo sites do then it'll be worth the grief. I'm still not totally happy with the pink and yellow colours but it looks pretty good.

I was going to use a page peel banner on this site which would have looked really cool but when I tried it the code clashed with the mootools menu and I couldn't get the graphic to display properly so I gave up trying to make it work. It's a shame becuase it would have looked really good but time and all that so I canned it.

So a while back I was saying that I wanted to build a health site but I'm putting all development on hold for the moment whilst I take a look at sh404SEF and get it deployed across the existing sites. I've been meaning to get this done for ages but the development was split and forked up so I put it off. Now it's gone commercial it's worth doing.

Almost forgot - it's the start of a new month, let's see what rockettheme have put together for us.

I just couldn't resist it.

Once I saw what the guys at rockettheme had given us this month I just had to download it and have a play!

Really disappointed with last months template as it wasn't much good for an affiliate template but this months offering makes up for it and more. I'll have a go at a logo tomorrow.

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