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This is the personal website of James Jackson. Here I will blog and post almost anything. This could be to do with programming, work, games, films, holidays, pictures and whatever else I want to post here. This site is running on my own Content Management System that I am currently developing. For more information about me and the site please take a look at my about page or Hello World post.

Posts with the tag nojacko

For the last month or so nojacko.com has been all Lib Dem'd up and now we're got our new coalition government (it's working out nicely) I thought it should remove it. Instead of going back to the old plan nojacko.com I thought a theme would be nice. So last night I Sonisphere'd up the site.

Check out Sonisphere Festivals. Thanks to David Harrison (Doktored) of Kilimanjaro Live for providing me with the awesome background.

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Over the last week or so I've been working some more on the CMS. The main factor contributing to this is that I'd told a friend (Matt) he could use it on his site. Last week he bought his domain name and wanted to get started. The main features that I've added are:

  • HTML Widgets
    These are bits of html users can create with the WYSIWYG editor and then include into the left or right hand side of a page. You can see these in action to your right on this page (About Me).
  • Media Manager
    Media Manager will now automatically create a thumbnail when you upload a JPEG, GIF or PNG image. Also, the simple ability to include a thumbnail into a page with a link to the original link already embeded.
  • Other tweaks and nice touches
    Theres a lot more little features I've added just to make things smoother and more useable. Here's a quick list: better options when saving a page that isn't published, after a page saves the URL is shown, the list of pages now links to each page and even more that are too small to mention.

 

You can see the cms running here on www.nojacko.com and also on Matt's site www.mattcrane.co.uk. I've let him have full access to the skin, views and css so he has full controll of the site's look.

As for the next set of changes... top of the to-do list is mainly behind the scenes improvements. They shouldn't really take too long (fingers crossed). Afterwards it's going to be galleries or blogs and then some widgets for both of them.


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About Me

I am James Jackson, a 22 year old web developer.  I  graduated in 2008 from the University of Leicester with a  2:1 in Computer Science (BSc). To find out more about me and my skills please visit James David Jackson.com.

 

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Events & Gigs

Download Festival
Silverstone Classic
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Alter Bridge (3rd Oct) 
Linkin Park (9th Nov)
Paramore (16th Nov)
Stone Sour (tba) 

 

I'm Playing...

Red Dead Redemption
Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2

 

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How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory