Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

More plastic? Stereo Vinyl Cruiser Skateboards in stock at Skate-Parts.Com

November 17, 2011Matt No Comments »

I’ve just gotten in the new Stereo Vinyl Cruiser skateboards in at Skate-Parts.Com in all colours from Stereo Sound Agencies. Colours included red, blue, green, pink, yellow and black. These cruisers are inspired by music, skateboarding and fun, drawing on Stereo’s roots in American Jazz and Blues. It comes with ABEC 7 bearings, stickers to customise [...]

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How do you put a Drupal website in maintenance mode via the database?

October 22, 2011Matt No Comments »

I recently had a website that we proving quite problematic, it got to the point where I couldn’t even access the Drupal maintenance page without getting memory errors (I suspect the result of a well and truly oversold shared server). It became necessary that when migrating it to a new server, to ensure there were [...]

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Now’s the time to get a Penny Skateboard!

October 4, 2011Matt 1 Comment »

With the distribution of Penny Skateboards increasing and them now available in Europe, New Zealand and the USA as well as Australia, competition is heating up and you can now pick up one of these fantastic plastic Penny complete cruisers for just $125 from Skate-Parts.Com (RRP $149) with free shipping anywhere in Australia. That’s a [...]

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New Logo For Skate-Parts.Com

October 3, 2011Matt No Comments »

I’ve been looking at getting a new logo done for Skate-Parts.Com for a while now and finally decided to give 99Designs a go as I just am out of ideas to play with for it! There ended up being a number of options that I really quite like and I’m having a lot of trouble [...]

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EFTPOS Fee Change Thoughts

October 2, 2011Matt No Comments »

According to news articles I’ve seen cropping up this week, it looks like EFTPOS has implemented a new fee schedule. According to their press releases, these were actually first mentioned back in March and clarified in early September, so I’m not sure why there wasn’t more mention of it back then. Maybe I just didn’t [...]

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Adding a Drupal Cron Job with cPanel

June 27, 2011Matt No Comments »

This is as much for my reference for each time I setup a Drupal site as it is for anyone wondering how to setup a cron job to automatically run cron on a Drupal site through cPanel. Log into cPanel Click “Cron Jobs” In the “Add new cron job” section, select “Once an hour” from [...]

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Adding Facebook Like and Open Graph to Drupal Quickly

June 24, 2011Matt 2 Comments »

If you want to quickly and easily add a Facebook Like button and Open Graph meta tags to a Drupal website as I recently setup to trial, there are two modules that allow you to do this, OpenGraph_Meta and Facebook Like Button. These two modules certainly don’t offer the advanced functionality of the heavyweight Drupal [...]

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U-Scrap is starting to become a reality

June 23, 2011Matt No Comments »

The U-Scrap website is now online, though it doesn’t actually do anything yet. Functions and aesthetics are in the works and will gradually become available. U-Scrap is intended to be an online scrapbooking store, but with the aim of being a scrapbooking community. I’m hoping to start to activate the community side of the functionality soon and [...]

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New MJB PhotoArt Logo!

June 17, 2011Matt No Comments »

MJB PhotoArt now has a logo and a basic website, it’s not much, but at least there is something up there! I really like how the logo came out and it works very well as a watermark too since it is transparent and appears just like a stamp has been put on the corner of [...]

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MJB Initiatives Has a Home!

June 16, 2011Matt No Comments »

I bought the domain name mjbinitiatives.com a few months ago now, and finally, it has a home! The root domain is hosted on the TerraMedia server as usual, but nothing is there yet, and I really wanted to get a functional blog up and running ASAP as it’s been sitting gathering dust for too long, [...]

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