So a friend of mine text me and says, “you want to go see Avenue Q”, and my reply was, “I’ve never heard of them”. After a bit of googling I find its a show not a band, lol, and has puppets in it. The best way to discribe it is an adult version of the Muppets.
So I went to see it yesterday at the Play House in Edinburgh, which is an amazing venue, never been there before, and it was fantastic. Not really one to take the whole family to but it was so funny and the cast were brilliant singers. There are some really good sounds in it and if you have a moment you should you tube them because they are hillarious. Really recommend seeing it if you get the chance.
Gamefest 2011
So i’ll admit i’m not the biggest gamer in the world but my boyfriend Euan is so we went down to Gamefest in Birmingham to check out the latest games coming out. It was held in the NEC which is mentally big, and has crap road signs, but we got there. As you walk in the door I can only describe the scene as the biggest amount of geeks you have ever seen squashed into a room at once. I think the guy girl ratio was about 10 to 1, and half the girls were actually mums being nice.
The room was divided into areas, Xbox, Playstation etc and then the huge games had there own stalls. The first place we went was MW3, and after queuing for about an hour and a half (which wasn’t bad!) we got into play it. I say we, I stood and watched, but it was still pretty cool. Once that game was played we just wondered about the rest of the afternoon and had some fun.
Overall my favourite game was the new F1. Mainly because you got to sit in a racing chair with pedals to play it, but the graphics were amazing. A close second was the new Mario Kart for the DS. Really good fun.
HTML to WordPress
A while ago, as in years, I made a quick html site for a mate of a mate. Turns out it was the most updated site I’ve ever made. The site is for some DJ’s in Glasgow who have gigs every month and wanted to post up the event details and posters. As much as I didn’t mind doing this, if I was away for the weekend then the new event didn’t get posted for like 5 days. So the solution a CMS (Content Management System).
I’ve only really used two content management systems, Joomla and WordPress. The main difference being the modules/widgets. I find Joomla much easier to add side bars, content bottoms, content tops and rotating headers. Though WordPress is easier to show someone how to update their news page if that is the main purpose of the site. So for this DJ site I chose WordPress.
I basically looked for a shell template with roughly the layout I was looking for and added in bits of my code from the HTML site they currently had. With a bit of plugin searching and some swearing the site began to look something similar to what they had before, but with a bit of a lift obviously. The tricky bit was the Events page. This was the WordPress Post page but I needed it to have forthcoming events, not blog post on it. Now that took a hell of a lot more swearing and Googling to figure that out but I got there in the end.
So from HTML to WordPress in like 40 hours, check out the result – www.depth-charge.co.uk