Date posted: 2007-11-21 | Comments(0)
The chat link to the chat room is now working. You will need to install a Java client in order to access the Java chat applet. Java can be downloaded from www.java.com
Join in with the banter and get in the chat room!
Date posted: 2007-11-21 | Comments(0)
Development on the website ceased for a little while, but here is the current 'todo' list:
Radio statistics
Radio stream info line
'Want To DJ' link
News Archives
Promos link
Media archive
New (bigger?) banner
DJs page linking to profiles and stations
Staff pics on 'about me page'
Upcoming events in sidebar
Upcoming events calendar
Bunch of administration stuff
Email on contactus submit
Newsletter system (html email?)
Finish user preferences
More user information
'DJ' user group
Date posted: 2007-11-21 | Comments(0)
We went to see Bill Bailey at the Nottingham Ice Arena on Sunday, was a good laugh, all new material unlike some comedians, but it just felt as though he'd lost his spark.
Numerous images and short (low quality) videos will be available on Facebook and/or the gallery at some point, just waiting for Tess to finish deleting them all as she goes through them going 'Crap'... 'Crap'... :)
Date posted: 2007-11-21 | Comments(0)
In the aftermath of the Halloween Party, Darkcyde and I spent a considerable amount of time in the studio working on two new tracks. These tracks are reasonably finished but clips won't be available yet...
Information on the two tracks are as follows;
First up: "Too Little Too Late", written by 'En-Lust', a vocal led cheese fest.
Secondly: "Give Me Your Loving", written by Darkcyde and produced as 'En-Lust', a track from 2005 with vocals written and performed (for now) by Darkcyde.
Date posted: 2007-11-03 | Comments(0)
Party was loads of fun, massive thanks to everybody that turned up and a special thanks to all those that turned up in costume! Pics to come soon hopefully (can't actually remember if we took any we were so wasted)
In other news... Darkcyde has been in the studio with Perspektiv since Wednesday night producing a peice of vocal hardcore called 'Too Little Too Late'. Expect euphoric leads, sweeping pads, and a phat beat with a clip coming soon!
Date posted: 2007-10-28 | Comments(0)
Got a new track posted up into the music / downloads section - going to be passing this one around a few labels to get a couple of opinions but in the mean time if you're up for having a listen to it then feel free to download a clip from the music page and leave your comments!
Track originally started out as a remix of something else but inevitably turned into an original peice - the other track 'Too Little Too Late' is back on the todo list, will probably have a go with this one once Darkcyde makes hisself available at the Halloween party next week!
Date posted: 2007-10-24 | Comments(4)
News - Archives for old posts with the ability to sort by category, also need to write a php script to output the contents of the articles database to an RSS feed
Radio - Need to include additional information, and a backend procedure for updating the URLs in the database to prevent hard coded urls
IRC Clients - Need to include more information to help lesser irc users get into our chatroom unharmed. One example is warning about the Javascript popup box.
Music - Buy links need linking to something but this isnt much work as the code is already there, just need to get them uploaded somewhere
Links - Page needs making, need to decide how I'm going to handle this.
DJ Panel - Needs making
Profiles - Done a lot more work on profiles to increase functionality. All new users are now prompted to enter information in their profile, all new registrations will get email confirmation and a confirmation on the homepage when they first create their account. working on an extensive user options system to allow full customisation.
Date posted: 2007-10-22 | Comments(0)
The forums are now available to sign up to and make posts. They can be accessed by clicking on the 'Forums' link at the top of the page. Strangely enough :)
Over the coming weeks I will be redesigning a theme for PHPBB version 3 to skin it to look like the rest of the website, in the mean time we’ve just got a boring old white and grey theme on the go.
If you have any requests for features, plugins, or additional forum sections that you would like to add, just make your posts in the ‘Feedback’ section of the forum.
Date posted: 2007-10-19 | Comments(6)
It's been a busy week so far, creating a new site for ickleislands.co.uk. So far I have got the following features working.
News page
Loads and displays the current news posts (most recent ten posts.) Features still to come; sort by category, post archive. The comments pages work and are formatted correctly.
Radio page
The radio page has some placeholders for the radio links using the old ickleislands stream links. These do not currently work. Heading for the timetable listing is included, although the timetable doesn't currently display. I'm still considering how I want the information from the timetable to be displayed, whether I go for a 'Calendar' look with the show names and times or otherwise. Any suggestions - let me know.
Releases
I'm not actually sure if I'm going to be keeping this page or not, haven't started it yet, at the moment the link is just a placeholder for whatever I decide to put there.
Events
As above, not sure if I'm going to go through with this or not. This page in association with the Releases page would be ideal for building up a community however depending on where we go with the radio station would be irrelevant. IE; if we go for a multi genre station this would involve all releases and events for all genres, which would be far too much work to maintain.
Forums
Once the site goes officially live this link will simply point back to the current ickleislands.co.uk forums.
Links
Links page for linking to whereever and whomever. Not started, still considering how I'm going to lay this out.
Contact
This pops up a nice funky AJAX popup box prompting for user information, the management page in the backend for this is also finished and working correctly.
DJ Control Panel
Pops up a nice little DJ Control Panel pointing at all the relevent information, going to utilise AJAX for updating the stream information, will include stats and links to update associated radio show profiles for the currently logged in user.
Options
Points to the administrative control panel or user control panel. Still need to include functionality to update user account information and profiles, will have a fully functional user profile system sorted in the immediate future.
Other stuff
RSS feed - not started, will implement at some point
Context sidebar - still in progress, will show context related side bar for individual pages on top of the 'todays lineup' listing.
Management backend - blog script working (no longer using wordpress, using a self written php script for this now)
User login and management - User login/logout/registration working perfectly, patched up a couple of security flaws and this is all working fine now. No user management at the moment, request forgotten password script needs sorting also so is currently disabled.
Date posted: 2007-10-19 | Comments(0)
Another new banging track by Mr. Synaesthesia under yet another one of his pseudo names. This one gets 2 very big thumbs up by myself (kronikgrl) who is generally very picky about his material.
Check out the clip:
'The Way We Are' (Clip)