Geek Stuff

Welll well well I had more or less abandoned my googlequest until Cass pointed out the other day that I was NUMBER FUCKING ONE - in your face important business man Crispin Read - now when people are googling you they will see my dribbly sweary nonsense instead.

Original post Project Vanity shows how it came to pass - not that getting the crispin read topspot is as difficult or cut throat as say 'travel insurance' but the principals are still the same.

Well done me - now prospective clients and future employers will be able to see what a daft drunk rude idiot they were thinking of employing.

...until they read this.

I have decide to have a bash at taking the google topspot away from this Crispin Read - http://www.cartesis.com/en/about/management_team/crispin_read/

I have thrown instances of 'Crispin Read' all over the site - in the title and in keyword desription meta tags and so on - now I am investigating what else I can do (I hope he gets the hump).

I am also going to get crispin_read into the URL somehow - I could instal the path module to this instance of drupal so I can rename this node or I might see if I can change the name 'node' thereby pefixing all posts wih my name - I bet googlebot will love that - or maybe it wouuld smell of overkill and blacklist the site.

yesterday I Banged out a site for my cousin's show - The London Chamonix Conection It is a two column fixed width layout based on negative margins. Dead simple site dead simple design - in fact no design at all - the flash movie thing isn't mine.

for a super-quick photo gallery I uploaded all the photo's he wanted to my flickr account and used the iFrame imbed slide show taht i got from Paul Stamatiou's site

here is the code:

Oh ho I made it look a bit less droopy - All i've done though is make a copy of the 'Box_grey' theme and stuck in a replacement logo and added the bg image to the content div. This is all table based layout though - it's gotta go. Here is where we are at:

I am the first to put the content up. One nil to the Essex This is the idea - in order to get stuck into drupal quick, Dave, Mark and I have all begun blogs that we will be building ourselves using drupal. We will all be trying to do the biggest 2.0 bukake over our sites filling them with