Three years to the day since ABC1 was launched, two and a half years since I launched the unofficial abc1uk website, the channel has come to an end with Disney pulling the plug and so with that, the unofficial website has had to close too.
It’s been a good couple of years with the site, with it being the first large scale site I’ve had to manage and deal with, and then a year later after teaming up with Myles, we recoded and redesigned the site to make it into the monster it became!
I’ve had online interviews with stars from ABC1 TV Shows, namely Sabrina Lloyd from Sports Night and Sherri Shepherd from Less Than Perfect, the site gained a whole heap of users and members to it’s forums, and it really did become a mini community with Disney having a look around the site on a regular basis!
Sadly though that is now all over, but there are always some people I would like to thank, namely;
Myles Noton, for to whom if it wasn’t for him the site probably wouldn’t have become so big and rich in features, and thus popular.
John Thackery, for providing hosting and tech support, and being there in times of crisis!
Joyce Rubin at Disney, for patiently providing as much information as she could on news about the channel and shows
The interviewees; Sabrina Lloyd and Sherri Shepherd, and their agents, to take the time to answer a few questions
And finally the visitors who took the time to keep visiting and who joined the community, and stayed with us when things sometimes went bad!
After a couple months of designing, coding, and putting the finishing touches too, the website for Rung Heating I’ve been making is finally complete, and more importantly it’s launched!
Based in Sherborne, Dorest; Rung Heating Supplies Ltd are specialist distributors to the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning industries across the country.
The website features company information, client listings, contact information, and the company’s complete products and services, all coded with fully valid XHTML and CSS through Adobe Dreamweaver, a downloadable company breakdown PDF document and photos and images made through Adobe Photoshop.
View site: www.rungheating.co.uk
In a mangled large envelope which looked like the postman had given the package to his dog to play with before posting it to me, my Moo Cards arrived this morning – much to me excitement! Thankfully, the cards are in a hard plastic box which itself is fine, and has kept all the cards all safe and well!
Some turned out better than others, but overall I’m pleased with them.
Hopefully I can put them to good use! First come first served folks!…
This evening I took the liberty of ordering 100, yes, 100 Moo Cards! Now, at this moment in time you must be thinking I’m crazy and what on earth are Moo Cards!?! Well, after being informed by my co-worker Myles, about a blog photographer Thomas Hawk made a while back about him ordering some Moo Cards, I was intriguied!
Moo Cards are mini business type cards, which can feature your own photos on the back of them, in full colour, for only £10 for a pack of 100 (all of which can have a seperate individual photo!)
Well, after pain stakingly choosing ten different photos (so I would have ten of each), and then making them look decent on the back of the cards, I wrote my information in and ordered them! So, in 10 working days apparently I should be the proud owner of 100 Mini Moo Cards, hopefully all looking as good in real life as I think they did on my computer screen! We’ll see…
Recently I’ve been starting to update some areas of the website, so far mostly the blog and gallery.
Parts of the gallery are currently unavaliable following a large scale update, namely the entire America Photos section, as well as some odds and ends, but these hopefully should be restored within the next week at the latest.
The blog itself may also appear to be displayed broken and look different every so often, while I’m trying to update certain areas, but the functionality during these periods should remain fine.
Updates So Far;
Tag Cloud – Replacing the category list on the right hand side is now a Tag Cloud, displaying each category according to size and colour, depending on how many topics are in each. (eg. The more posts in an individual category, the darker and larger it will appear, and visa versa.)
Recent Posts – Again, on the right hand side, an easy to read list of the most recent posts.
