I’ve just discovered two new pseudo-classed (well new to me) These are :before and :after. You can use these to insert content before or after a selected element. If you use these along with the “content” property you can insert additional content beofre or after an element. So…

p:before {
    content: "Some text out front";
}

does what it says -  and adds some text out front of the <p>…</p>

On the face of it this sounds fun, but why would you want to use it – afterall, css is all about keeping content separate from style. I can think of a couple of examples – you could be wanting to change the text next to an item on the fly, say if its out of stock, or setting some marker for an active link – say to show the page you are on.

The later is where I am planning on getting stuck into this idea. Here at ee-web developers I am just about to launch a site and, as often happens, I have left the “What will the active menu links look like” question until the end (tut tut). Since the logo for the site is a real funky coffee cup (its a coffee shop afterall) I think a little cup behind or to the left of the active link might look good. I guess i could do this with a background image on the link – probably eaiser, but I want to try out these pseudo-classes!

Please let me know what you use it for!

Of course, the other big deal here is that I was reading up on how to create mobile sites …  and in so doing learnt some new css – you just have to keep on learning in this game. You can de-evolve back into a dinosaur so quickly!!!

Its been busy time here at ee-web towers, and i am delighted to announce the launch of Azman Architects new site.  Its very clean and crisp, stripping back text to a minimum and feature lots of photographs of their work. Its been quite a while since the planning stages for this site but the final result is well worth it. Its based on the joomla content management system, which proved ideal for breaking down the content into a logical navigation system.

ee-web is jolly glad to announce the launch of the BFC site - its been a pleausre working with Pastor Rick, a man who knows what he wants. The new site is planed to be a resouce for the local church community and has been built with expansion in mind. Its clean, crisp and graphic, very different from the old one which was full of content, and hard to update for non-techy people. Now the site is based on a content management system, meaning Rick can update with consumate ease. We’ve included podcast functionality, as well as several different download categories for video, pdf, word, powerpoints etc.

I have to say, I am very please with the outcome!

We have been working for some time on the update to the “Faraday Property Management” website, and are delighted to announce that it has finally gone live. Faraday manage a large number of residential properties through out London, and needed to update and greatly expand their existing website to ensure it accurately reflected their business.

As you might expect its another “Content Management” based solution, so they can keep it up to date. As well as designing and building the website, we also where comissioned to take a large number of new photographs for the site.

We are very pleased to announce that the “Babelquest” site has gone live. Like most of our sites, this is based on a content management system – so please remember that if you visit and see an odd looking page!

Babelquest is a “Start up” company, and needed a relatively simple site, eye catching site on a budget.

We hope you agree that we have managed to do that for them!

I am VERY pleased to announce the movement of the Joseph Storehouse new site from its development server to its live space – ie its not sitting on ee-web space anymore, but is in situ and the domain is pointing – so its live!

Its been a real pleasure to work with Alex and Francis and the others at the JST. They have worked hard, supplied material very promptly and quickly learned the usage of joomla for editing. I really expect this site to stay current, and for the boundries to be pushed!

The new site features an on line store and donations pages, as well as a whole pile of information about the charities work in Israel and some great teaching too.

Check it out!

At ee-web we have been looking to develop our “Consultancy” work. We have a great deal of teaching and training experience, and get a real kick out of seeing others develop their abilities

The Christian Housing Association has recently approched ee-web with a slightly unusual request. They want to develop six, or possible seven “Micro sites” to sit alongside their large “Public” site.

Here’s what they said -

“Come and teach us how to”

• modify / work up designs in photoshop
• develop a joomla template

Excellent! This is just the sort of thing that we thrive on! CHA wants to reach the stage where they can impliment design changes and significant changes in site structure on their own. Makes great sense to us!

Now you can’t learn these things over night, so this is probably going to require some training followed by some support followed by a bit more training, and a bit more support. Ah ha, a partnership.

We’ll keep you posted on this one!

The Enfeld healing rooms have recently comissioned ee-web to design and build a content management based site, their first website. The EHR is a new project, and part of the international Healing Rooms.

Working closly with the directors, ee-web has already developed a logo for them for them based on an idea they previously had. It is planned that the site will be a focus for future advertising for the ministry, and be frequently updated with news of their work.

At ee-web we’re excited about this new comission for a young, growing organisation and look forward to a developing partnership with them.

We are pleased to announce that one of  most prestigious sites has just gone live – Coin Street Community Builders. This has been in development since August 2009, and is perhaps the biggest job we have under taken to date.

Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a social enterprise and development trust which seeks to make London’s South Bank a better place in which to live, to work and to visit. The new site show cases much of the work, and the way that residents and business can get involved or make the best use of the events, workshops, classes and venues that CSCB offer.

Featuring an in-house modified version of of the excellent jEvents calendar module, the site is able to display up coming events in several different formats, all from one easy to up-date backend page. CSCB wanted a state of the art CMS from which they would be able to take complete control of their content. Over 50 stores and restaurants are featured, along with many social and educational events that CSCB run at several venues on London’s South Bank. Several RSS feeds are include, along with links to CSCBs social media network.

As the lead developer on the team I am most gratified to see that Coin Steet have wanted to be actively involved in adding content to the site, and have got to grips with the CMS quickly. From the moment the site went live they have been updating material.

We hope their new site will be really useful to them, and we look forward to working with them on future developments to their cyber presence.

I am really pleased to announce a new commision to update the Joseph Storehouse Trust website. The JST is an organisation that raises aid for people living in Palestine, and has bases in the USA, England and several European countries. The founder, Barry Segal, has a worldwide teaching ministry too.

The JST currently have a successful “static” website, which is now beginning to look a bit dated. Due to a shift in the work of the organisation the opportunity has been taken to re-develop the whole site using a Content Management System and to add an on-line store.

At ee-web we are very excited about the working with the JST again, and hope to continue to develop the partnership that we have had over the last 3 years.