Tag Archives: website development

Lovefood.com – a new website for foodies

23 Nov

Over the past few weeks, Colin, Joseph, Julia and I have been working away on a tasty new website called lovefood.com. I think it looks mouthwatering!

Lovefood homepage

The idea is that recipes from top chefs are collected together to form a definitive ‘Guide’ that’s full of authentic dishes, so you know they’re tried, tested and delicious.

Lovefood Guide

Giles Coren is one of the key writers for the site and recipes come from celebrity chefs, like Jamie Oliver and chefs from well known restaurants such as Henry Dimbleby (Leon) and Rene Redzepi (Noma).

As usual, we’re still working on adding to the site, agile style so it will evolve over time. Next to come is registration functionality and being able to comment on recipes.

Enjoy!

‘How-to’ get richer

18 Nov

We’ve just launched our shiny new How-to Guides at lovemoney.com.

They do just what they say on the tin – whatever your financial aims are, whether it’s managing milestones in life such as getting married, or being able to go on more holidays, or build up some savings, there’s a guide to help you achieve it.

How-to Guide homepage

I think they look pretty enticing with the carousel for navigation. Each guide has the tasks broken down within it, so there’s loads of information here.  I even learnt a thing or two from our testing!

We’re going to add the ability for users to comment very shortly – some of the most useful tips have been from the lovemoney.com users.

How-to Guide task

We’ve been working on some other things too, which I’ll post about very shortly.

Designed by Julia, built by Phil and coded by Joseph – excellent work guys!

Join a group on lovemoney.com

7 Oct

Groups, our recently built page was moved from the footer into the header in yesterday’s release, so we’re looking forward to seeing lots of activity on this area of the site.

It’s supposed to work more like a community of people with similar interests, so you should easily be able to find answers to pretty much anything and it doesn’t need to be limited to personal finance….

Hope you like it – have a go! I’d be interested to hear any feedback.

What is N-Tier?

30 Jul

N-Tier

This is the name of the process of developing in ASP.NET, using a programming code ( like C# for example) to tell the web pages what to display and the database language SQL to query the database. The process uses three ‘Layers’ in between the browser and the database.

The top layer is the Web Layer and this is the interface between man and machine.  The data on the web pages and the way they function is achieved by the Services Layer calling the correct stored procedures from the database.

Beneath this is the Services Layer, which contains the scripts that tell the Data Access Layer what information to pull from the database.

The diagram below from Wikipedia is a pretty useful overview. I’ve put a breakdown of what’s in each layer on the right.

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