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The Guv's Building Site - www.ollythebuilder.com

Website launch - www.ollythebuilder.com

3 Nov
ollythebuilder.com - photo gallery

They say things happen in three's, so to keep up with tradition I'm launching three sites this week. As well as Guvnr.com and a namesake portal, ollyconnelly.com, I've scrubbed up my old building services site. In fact, I've fairly thrown the kitchen sink at it, css-stylee.

CSS-rich features

To showcase the building services I mess about with when I'm sick of this keyboard (and need the exercise), there's a snazzy, hoverbox-like image gallery, utilising pure CSS and ultra fast-loading piccies so that visitors can see clearly what I do, quickly and enjoyably. This works on all modern web browsers, including Microsoft's browser-from-hell, ie6 (someone hand me that machine gun...) And in keeping with my brain, ie simple, I've built a one-layer navigation for ultimate usability. If that's all Greek, it's easy to surf, and your machine won't hesitate.

ollythebuilder.com homepage

Automated feedback & bi-lingual editions utilising MODx

Complete with a slick automated contact form, and mounted on the brilliant php-based MODx content management system to accomodate bi-lingual, Spanish-English versions, it validates to the highest web standards available. (OK, the opacity changes don't validate, but that's because they're more advanced than the ruleset, so aren't yet recognised, er, so there ;) )

ollythebuilder.com contact form

Thanks go to hoverboy-wonder Nathan Smith and CSS sultan Stu Nichols for inspiring me to crack out a gallery like this, and to all the crew at MODx whose content management platform never ceases to buzz my bally balloon. Well, something like that.

You can check out some screenshots here but, hey, just check out the site.

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Posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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  1. harryho December 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    that's a sweet layout. Nice css, geezer

  2. JJ December 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    hi guv. Tell me, are you ollythebuilder at the modX forum? That's clean code.

  3. the_guv January 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am

    @harryho, big cheers, appreciate that.
    @jj, thank you. Sure, that's me. ModX, one beautiful platform. Will be blogging about it.

  4. Lupe January 19th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Olly, it's Lupe, when are you go to fix my tap ! Nice web site, but no spanish?

  5. the_guv January 20th, 2009 at 8:07 am

    @Lupe, LOL. See you Saturday. This site is good for your Spinglish ;)

  6. surfer February 5th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    I think you build better sites than houses Ol. Hahah

  7. the_guv February 5th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    @surfer, I may have to ban you m8! Tell you what tho', I miss the exercise...

  8. Cristian Nica August 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Hello.

    Nice to meet you.

    I read and enjoy your 20 steps VPS tutorials and enjoy it.
    I'm happy to see that we both love and use Linode, ModX and NginX. I like your work. I hope we'll keep in touch ;)

    Have a nice day,
    nlcluigi

  9. the_guv August 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    @Cristian .. lovely to hear, thank you. A lovely start to a Monday!

    Yes, let's be in touch. Do you use jQuery? That's super fine too. Lemme know your site and we can share tips. You can follow me on Twitter.com/the_guv too.

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