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New impworks Home Page… Almost

impworks — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:06:00 +0000

I was trying to get the new home page done tonight but a bout of lazyness has overtaken me. The CSS is done, the Smarty templates are done and, after a bit of a fight, an image processing script that will make my life easier in the long run is done. The content however isn’t done so switching it for the current one will have to wait till tomorrow. Like I said at the start I’m feeling lazy so sue me…

One year of Too Many Ideas

impworks — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:48:00 +0000

Just noticed this blog was a whole year old last week. So here’s a round up of projects started and progress so far.

Serious and Organised / Men of Action / The ABC System: system written needs play testing.

Arædan: Originally called Untitled Fantasy #1. In need of editing.

The Seer: About 50% written and waiting for me to go back to it.

Fairy Tale Noir: Heading on towards the 40,000 word mark with no sign of ending till it’s at least 50,000. A little longer than the 15,000 I was aiming for. May do a second draft to try to kick it up to 100,000+ and call it a novel.

impworks logo: Done and in use.

impworks website: Live since last year and growing. Recoded into Smarty templates almost as soon as I finished the first version. Some stuff (mostly pictures, scripts and tutorials to add when I find time).

Vue Python scripts: I’ve produced a growing list of free Vue Python scripts.

STEEPVM: Turned into a wednesday night post sequence instead of an article.

Characters on the Couch: Serialised here too.

Vue: Vue 6 is a huge leap forward in making my pictures look like I want them to. The new spectral sky model is worth the upgrade alone as far as I’m concerned.

Poser 7: Using it pretty much like Poser 5 and 6 at the moment need to dig into the enhancements.

Xfrog: Got a working copy again and now I’m back to exploring making abstracts with it.

Virtual Fashion: Starting to get good results from this especially when textured elsewhere.

Pepakura Designer: Need to find more time to play with this.

Blogs: This one is well established. The Vue News Blog is getting growing readership. I’ve a couple more in the pipe line too for specialist topics.

Underwater Secret Base: Redesigned to include obligatory volcano.

impworks Link Section Coming Soon

impworks — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:55:00 +0000

I spent several annoying hours today trying to find free link directory scripts for my impworks site that worked with smarty templates. After a couple of wasted hours of downloading and trying out scripts I decided it would be quicker to code something up myself. Now I’ve got the basic MySQL, PHP and smarty templates done I need to add the sites and categorise them once that’s done I’ll put the pages live.

impworks Smarty Migration Done

impworks — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:11:00 +0000

I’ve finished updating my impworks website tonight to move it to using smarty templates. I’ve cut a few pages I wasn’t happy with. Now I can start adding new content again and a some new features too.

Almost Smarty

impworks — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:14:00 +0000

Translated almost all of the remaining pages on my impworks site to smarty templates today. Just a couple of little tweaks left to make to the templates and a couple of pages that have special features to do. Then I can start adding new pages and some bits that will be easier with the smarty set up.

Kim Goes to Number 1!

impworks — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:00:00 +0000

So Kim’s (www.Romance Fiction.co.uk) second book, Buying Mackenzie’s Baby has gone to number one on Samhain’s chart.

Which is far more interesting than my having hacked about a third of the pages of the impworks website into Smarty templates.

Smarty Experiments

impworks — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:38:00 +0000

Spent a few hours tonight playing with smarty templates to decide what the best way is to set up the templates for impworks for the main content. I think I’ve hit on a solution I like. Now all I have to do is sort out any fiddly bits and dress the content up to work.

More Smarty Templates

impworks — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:53:00 +0000

I’ve been converting my site to smarty templates today. The job isn’t finished yet but I’ve made a good start on the templates and the code to call them.

PHP Smarty Templates

impworks — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:58:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting to start using Smarty Templates with PHP for a while. Finally got to today. I suspect in a few months I’ll wonder how I ever coded PHP without them.