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Welcome to the 206 Enterprises homepage. At the moment, there's very little here and the links down the side aren't all working yet.
21-Mar-2005 9 months...
Well, it's been a whole 9 months since I added news. This is just to let you know that I am still alive.
What have I been doing? Kidz Books mainly, as well as a little dabbling with C++ and DirectX. I did start with C# and Managed DirectX but quickly came to the conclusion that it's slow.
I've also been experimenting with the customisation of Homesite (Macromedia's html/asp editor). The latest script allows opening of most includes, hrefs, frame src tags, form actions and the list goes on. It also allows association of extensions with external apps such as BradSoft's Top Style for css files. You can download it here (3kb).
Also recently I built a nice new shiny PC (ok, 4 months ago now) and more recently bought Pinnacle Liquid Edition. When I first read the recommendation of a dual 3Ghz processor, I thought no way...but even on a 3.4Ghz with 1Gb memory it struggles...it's not unusuable...it just takes a long time to launch and you can forget about doing anything else - the rendering however is fast. The rubbish thing about it is that it doesn't work with my DC10+ card. Oh well.
Nothing much else to say really...just keep an eye out for more news...in another 9 months perhaps.
07-Jun-2004 The Site
I can announce it now. The mysterious site I was working on is for my Wife's Father's 60th birthday. It can be found at http://www.ericlevin.co.uk. It took a couple of days to do and was quite good fun. feel free to have a look.
Also, the Video Lockup is now available at http://www.206enterprises.co.uk/videoshop. At the moment, there's not much listed but keep an eye out for great bargins.
19-May-2004 Minor Update
As you can see, I've finally added more content to the site. I've added an article on how to use stylesheets for changing the appearance of links. The second part is the new services section. This is available right now. So, if you want to contact me about this, feel free to do so.
Also coming soon is the Video Lockup. This is a site for selling VHS video cassettes (all original). This is based very loosely on the Kidz Books site but is entirely in ASP.NET. This is basically going to be the template for a shop front as mentioned in services. I hope to have this up in the next few weeks as I have a more pressing project. The details are being with-held for now.
Watch this space.
22-Apr-2004 Finally
Yes, I've done it. I've finally completed the editor. I can see this ending up like a blog.
Why has it taken so long? I've had several mini projects going on, the main one being that I've reworked the Kidz Books site. The main changes are that we've added articles, interviews and a section called reads.
The reads is really the fun bit where I write a bit about books I've been reading. It was supposed to be serious but my reads always seems to have a little humour in it. Saying that, with all the site changes I've been doing, I've not read many books. Have a look at the reads and also the Articles. (I'm not plugging it - they are interesting, honest!!)
The other project I've been working on is a semi-WYSIWYG HTML editor for the web browser. It's actually nearing completion and is actually in use. There's a few glitches with the inserting of image and it doesn't handle uploads. I also want to be able to edit images. AND, the plan is to put it up here for free. I may even write some documentation (Gasp!!)
I will get more done on this site but I just wanted to post this note. May it be the start of many.
Anyway, enough already. I'm off. TTFN
12-May-2005 The Grampian Children's Book Award
Today I attended a book award ceremony in Aberdeen's Cowdray Hall as the official rep for Kidz Books. It was actually interesting and it was also fun meeting the authors. I'll be writing an article in the coming weeks and also, hopefully, have interviews with the 3 authors who attended.
Big congrats to Catherine Forde for winning.
21-Mar-2005 9 months...
Well, it's been a whole 9 months since I added news. This is just to let you know that I am still alive.
What have I been doing? Kidz Books mainly, as well as a little dabbling with C++ and DirectX. I did start with C# and Managed DirectX but quickly came to the conclusion that it's slow.
I've also been experimenting with the customisation of Homesite (Macromedia's html/asp editor). The latest script allows opening of most includes, hrefs, frame src tags, form actions and the list goes on. It also allows association of extensions with external apps such as BradSoft's Top Style for css files. You can download it here (3kb).
Also recently I built a nice new shiny PC (ok, 4 months ago now) and more recently bought Pinnacle Liquid Edition. When I first read the recommendation of a dual 3Ghz processor, I thought no way...but even on a 3.4Ghz with 1Gb memory it struggles...it's not unusuable...it just takes a long time to launch and you can forget about doing anything else - the rendering however is fast. The rubbish thing about it is that it doesn't work with my DC10+ card. Oh well.
Nothing much else to say really...just keep an eye out for more news...in another 9 months perhaps.
07-Jun-2004 The Site
I can announce it now. The mysterious site I was working on is for my Wife's Father's 60th birthday. It can be found at http://www.ericlevin.co.uk. It took a couple of days to do and was quite good fun. feel free to have a look.
Also, the Video Lockup is now available at http://www.206enterprises.co.uk/videoshop. At the moment, there's not much listed but keep an eye out for great bargins.
19-May-2004 Minor Update
As you can see, I've finally added more content to the site. I've added an article on how to use stylesheets for changing the appearance of links. The second part is the new services section. This is available right now. So, if you want to contact me about this, feel free to do so.
Also coming soon is the Video Lockup. This is a site for selling VHS video cassettes (all original). This is based very loosely on the Kidz Books site but is entirely in ASP.NET. This is basically going to be the template for a shop front as mentioned in services. I hope to have this up in the next few weeks as I have a more pressing project. The details are being with-held for now.
Watch this space.
22-Apr-2004 Finally
Yes, I've done it. I've finally completed the editor. I can see this ending up like a blog.
Why has it taken so long? I've had several mini projects going on, the main one being that I've reworked the Kidz Books site. The main changes are that we've added articles, interviews and a section called reads.
The reads is really the fun bit where I write a bit about books I've been reading. It was supposed to be serious but my reads always seems to have a little humour in it. Saying that, with all the site changes I've been doing, I've not read many books. Have a look at the reads and also the Articles. (I'm not plugging it - they are interesting, honest!!)
The other project I've been working on is a semi-WYSIWYG HTML editor for the web browser. It's actually nearing completion and is actually in use. There's a few glitches with the inserting of image and it doesn't handle uploads. I also want to be able to edit images. AND, the plan is to put it up here for free. I may even write some documentation (Gasp!!)
I will get more done on this site but I just wanted to post this note. May it be the start of many.
Anyway, enough already. I'm off. TTFN