Archive for February, 2010

New addition to the ManCave for the bar…

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€1366.07 down…

So I have been doing some serious work on my mancave during my two weeks off, so far I have all of the walls battened, the new door fitted, and two of the walls wired for mains sockets. I have even been picking up some additional parts that we are not quite ready yet, such as a roll of CAT6 cable, CAT6 wall outlets with faceplate’s, 17 double gang switched sockets and much much more… all in all its coming along nicely. No photo’s taken as of yet though, I really should have taken some at the start and all the way through as it would have been quite a good evolution slide show, but alas its too late now… we did run into a few issues though, the garage is still crammed full of stuff and there is not much room to move around in it so that has been slowing us down a lot, however there is nowhere else to put it so it has to be this way for now I’m afraid :(

Another issue we’ve encountered was that the cavity blocks haven’t aged all that well and are quite hard, like flint even, so masonry nails havent been working out too well on that, so as a more expensive, and time consuming work-around, we have been using nail-anchors and manually drilling for each baton… not the most fun thing in the world, but at least its progress…

As a side note, from working out in the cold weather all week I seem to have gotten another cold :(

I Hate Webdesign

Did I mention lately that I hate webdesign? no? let me explain…

While I am quite proficient at writing backend systems in PHP and mySQL, or even taking an existing design and twising it around, chopping it up and changing things, I have no artistic taste when it comes to actually designing things. I have taken on a job for a client, and I now feel that I am out of my depth, it doesnt help that I have absolutely no specification what so ever, none, nada, ziltch… but even still, I should be able to come up with something suitable, but I cant, its just not coming to me… It’s not a particularly complex website, its basicly an online brochure for a catering company so I have settled on using the website baker CMS for doing all of the backend management, it doesnt really need anything more complex than that to do what it needs to do, however this means that 90% of the work to be done on this site is purely design, look and feel… and I hate it.

So far, my design consists of a solid, light coffee color background, some red (to slightly pinkish) text, and a white box with a border… really… is this the best I can do?