September 12th 2008
The end of a fairly typical week I suppose.
On Monday, unusually, I had two appointments. The first was the employer of a friend who had expressed an interest in a having a website designed. I had to go to Kloof and was bowling up Fields Hill behind a couple of cars, doing about 90kph when this white 4×4 drives right up my rear and starts flashing its lights.
If there’s one thing that’s going to get me to co-operate its having a plonker up the rear flashing his lights, The hill was busy as usual, we were doing a fair speed and I was blowed if I was going to move. So I gave the character the usual sign which resulted in a variety of expostulations behind his wheel.
Right - so two can play.
I slowed to 40kph - in the fast lane mind you. Then selected second and accelerated. Now the Red Rattler, the 1987 Golf 16V may be elderly but it can take off. I left the idiot 400m behind trying to find a gear.
Nevertheless, he passes me on the inside on the last bend and flies off. Talk about survival of the fittest on the roads in this country. It gets worse as time goes on.
Anyway, I had prepared a quotation which was gone through minutely and was told to wait for a reply - maybe. I could acommodate all the prospect’s requirements bar one. He wanted to be able to automatically decrement a number as a candidate enrolled for a course. Couldn’t see any off the peg PHP scripts so I told him he would have to engage a custom PHP coder.
In the afternoon, I had to go to Umhlanga to another prospect. I was given directions that took me behind Gateway and I couldn’t find this wretched place. It took three calls until it appeared. After the meeting I asked for the best way out and it turned out that this crowd were practically on a major road to Durban - within 50m!
Workwise, there have been several jobs on the go.
I’m doing a Joomla site for a client - in fact two Joomla websites for two clients. One is version 1.0 and the other, version 1.5.
Now, Joomla is the pre-eminent open source content management system (CMS) - and with some reason - but I’ll talk about this in the next post.
The other job is the development of another website design website for the business. I have four domains but I will let one lapse. This is the third but I have another - website-designers.co.za that has been filled with some old content from the original website - warthog.co.za for about a year.
I always wanted to do a grey website - different shades with a contrasting colour. In this case, maroon, although I might make it another colour as it may conflict with the visited link colour.