Slight holdup
Slight problem. The long overdue “dot com” side of my website has hit another snag. Initially I was very happy with the final design and layout thanks to some assistance in design from @staceyjenkins (a local designer) however two things have troubled me. The current ‘proposed site’ has zero blogging facility, and while I don’t [...]
It’s taken 7 months, but it’s time!
Well, It’s been a long and hard journey, but with some help from some friends and some people on twitter I have finally found the theme for thelongmile.com and I’m ready to start publishing and going live, all I need to do is integrate some form of store which I am currently working on and [...]
Extended Server Maintenance Tonight
From around 6PM GMT tonight the server will experience extended downtime for a number of hours whilst I re-image the server from Debian, to CentOS. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, but it’s mainly to increase security and stability and make up for some of Debians shortcomings! Sorry about the inconvenience
Site Downtime
At approximately 11 pm thelongmile.net, cardifftweetups.co.uk, apptacious.com and casimireffectfilm.com all hosted on this server went down. The server experienced a catastrophic failure which was caused by a bad command in the system scripts. The system has now been restored with the help of the folks at linode.com and the server is performing normally. I apologise [...]
Some News about the recent downtime
As you know, the site went down for an hour on the 7th of December, but this wasn’t for maintenance or for spring cleaning, This was in fact something far bigger. Previously the server that was hosing thelongmile.net was hosted in the United States. In Newark, New Jersey on server newark149 if your interested of [...]
I’ve made some decisions
Ok, So I’ve been thinking and AGAIN I have changed my mind on something. When I redesigned this site, I wanted it to be a combination of my blog, and my photography portfolio, but I find I am taking so many pictures now that I need to refocus those efforts. Not only that but people [...]
Update on site move
As I explained in the last posting, thelongmile.net will shortly undergo a server move from my current hosts BuyHTTP to a Private Server owned by myself. If anyones interested I’m moving to Linode. Over the past few days I’ve been installing and configuring the server and getting ready for the move in general. If you [...]
Over 25 New Photos
Over Twenty Five new photos have just been added to the Flickr gallery, comprising of a number of shots around Cardiff, and the Thai Food Festival at Greenwich. There are also Eight new photos in the Portfolio from the Cardiff Tweetup held at Cardiff Bay on Friday 7th August. More will be added to the [...]
Money
Just a quick note for all my visitors about the recent additions to the site. Those of you who visit regularly will know that I have always been very much against adverts. However with the more… “Commercial” nature of having CardiffTweetups.co.uk (yes it is now a .co.uk domain) adverts are becoming necessary. As a result, [...]
Site progress
As some of you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes that have taken place to the site. First and foremost is the addition of the twitter widget at the bottom right of the page. This is something that has been long missed and I frequently get asked if and when it is [...]
Flickr Integration
Just a small update but thankfully the integration of the gallery into Flickr is now complete. There is now only a single gallery on the site, The Portfolio which is based on the Cooliris Piclens Suite. All you need to do is have Flash player installed. The remaining galleries are now hosted on Flickr, and [...]
Access & More…
After a few years of waiting, I am now happy to announce that you can now access thelongmile.net through thelongmile.com! At the moment this is simply a redirect but it’s a big thing for me since I’ve been waiting for almost five years! So, there will be a minor rebrand on the premise that this [...]
Cleanup & Consolidation
I thought I would give you all a quick update as to how the site is going, and announce something, so I’ll keep this one brief for you. Since the revamped template launched the site has received a big increase in hits. In April the site saw 36581 hits, May saw 26810 and June saw [...]
A Long List Of Thanks
Whilst this site has been up, various pages have not been touched, so I think it’s appropriate that I give some thanks and credits to those that helped me develop this site. Because without them this really would not have been possible. My first humble thanks go to the themes developers. GraphPaperPress created the original [...]
New Site Layout Now Up
Just a quick note to say the new site template is now up! Hope you all like! Just another note – the twitter widget is broken – i cant seem to change it’s colour so its transparent for some reason, so it’s been disabled, and the gallerys still rely on flash, as I’m still working [...]
Brief update
I’m really sorry that I havnt been moving quicker with this, but my last post was not entirley truthfull. The website still had one major bug within the comments that made them completley unreadable. I am pleased to say that this has now been fixed, although I don’t think I will ever recover from it. [...]
Not Long to go
I’d like to give everyone a very brief update as to exactly what is happening with the site. My Gnatt charts now tell me I am at 81% completion. In fact the entire site is 100% ready to be moved over to this one, however I want to fill out the other 19% which is [...]
Update, and a favour…
Yes, I have a small favour to ask all of you, but more on that in a moment. I wanted to update everyone on the progress of the new site layout. I will also say, I am really glad I made the decision to develop this, as everytime I look at the current site, It [...]
The Face Of The Future
Hello again everyone. This is a somewhat minor update yet one I am more than happy to type out. Two days ago, both myself and Sean Nicholls my PHP consultant, began work on the new site template. Currently we don’t know how long it wil be before the site is relaunched. We had hoped that [...]
Regarding the look, making the feel
Ok so I’ve looked around and found four potential designs that I want to look at for this site, which I will list below, but remember, don’t take them all at face value, each will be edited and customised to my personal tastes and to fit in with the site schemea. Lets start with template [...]
The order of things
The Order Of Things I did a terrible thing. I spent over a month solidly working hard on the redesign of this website, comparing different things, and looking at things I can add in. I consulted and worked closley with Andrew Kennett and Sean Nicholls, the two consultants I had with me when redesigning the [...]
The look and feel
Over the past few weeks, this site has received an overwhelmingly positive amount of feedback through email, but I’m still a little distressed as to why no-one has thought to use the comment feature. Yet stats are showing that in the first month there have been 31393 hits on this site. Yet something about the [...]
Minor Update
The site template that we have here, has basically been hacked to death in order to get it looking and acting like I want… But despite all this, It just isn’t quite looking how I want, but I can’t pinpoint why, or how to change it. So I would be really really greatful if anyone [...]
Mobile Gallery Now Available
Well after a little fiddling around I’ve managed to get the mobile gallery working properly (to an extent). All mobile users can now access the gallery slideshow feature on an image by image basis. I have tried to get it to load up in that familure picture style that you get on the iPhone however [...]
