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University Intranet

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:27:06 +0000

This website was designed for students to receive updates from lecturers on the units that they are studing. This site is the student facing side of the lecture driven CMS. This web site is designed to replace an already existing site, that is currently not database driven but static html pages. Each unit in the department has it’s own unit page, which acts much like a blog, with a stream of the latest updates. This redesign makes the site more dynamic by linking information together for example the author of a post has a link to their profile page.

Students can keep up today with updates by subscribing to each unit’s RSS feed. Students can even filter down to category level of each post and only subscribe to post of category that they are interesting in, e.g. Lab notes for Unit B356. The system has a mechanism for caching of feeds, as this cuts down the server load because RSS feeds can be resource intensive applications as they perform many queries on the database.

The web interface is rich user experience and follows the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Meta Computing

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:05:43 +0000

A first year project from University to show our understanding of PHP scripting and javascripts. It uses a very simple MySQL to store the guides and create sitemaps. It is a extremely easy to use and read technology guide site. The design is something completely new and it a real show case of creativity.

ComputingCorner

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:49:45 +0000

Computing Corner is a web 2.0 blog that was started in April 2007. The strips design is clear and visaully interesting with a rich use of greys and blacks. The discusses important news stories, highlights cools site and gives handy hints. It has lots of other interesting stuff. It also has another database of my scripts that I have written and decided to share with the world.

Spacedmonkey

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:54:50 +0000

Spacedmonkey is my personal site, which containing a weblog, articles, little pieces writings and other works. It is on the bleeding edge of web design, using the latest version of the content management system WordPress and a completely complete built theme to display content. There many modifations to the orignal theme installed, including an ajax search, contact form and a custom Flickr photo gallery. It also has style switching between fix width and adaptable width stylesheets.The contact form also had custom made spam detection and filtering. It also uses rss feeds and xml sitemap techonologies to keep search engine index up-to-date. Spacedmonkey is always being updated, all new features and use the latest features within the updated web browser. An example of this is the Firefox/Internet explorer 7 search engine plugin which also users to search the site from which their browser search box.