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End of an Era

Jonathan Ward — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:11:08 +0000

After almost 2 years of hacking, configuring, fixing, uploading, manipulating, coding and moaning, my time working on the systems on Redsumo.com is drawing to a close.

It has sure been an adventure, overall a fun but challenging experience. I’ve had to reverse engineer someone else’s setup and code, work out new ways of managing a virtualised infrastructure, constantly adapt to the threats that face an online business and all within my usual day job.

In some ways I’m sad to see all my efforts literally disappear as the systems move to a dedicated hosting environment powered by cPanel. Sure I will keep my bits of code, and retain all the lessons I have learned, but it’s almost as if a part of me will be going forever over the next week or so!

Good luck to Redsumo.com in all their ventures in the future, and thank you for allowing me the experience of managing such a complex environment.

End of an Era

HTML 5 Video Code

Jonathan Ward — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:25:17 +0000

With the new features of HTML5 being constantly shoved in our faces, I though I’d share a little snippet of code that adjusts the initial volume of a video on a HTML page- this particular example is used at http://www.redsumo.com/blog for the video header on the main page. The video was too loud when the client computer volume was at 100% so, we decided it needed lowering, without re-encoding the video.

id=“welcomevid” width=“620” height=“250” controls=“controls” autoplay=“autoplay” onplay=“document.getElementById(‘welcomevid’).volume=0.2;” >

Note the id=“welcomevid” which is required in order to set the volume paramter in the DOM with the getElementById command.

Volume control is 0-1 with 0.5 being 50% etc. hence the use of 0.2 in this example.

HTML 5 Video Code

Latest Websites

Jonathan Ward — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:26:46 +0000

It’s been yet another busy couple of months, separated by my 10 days in sunny Georgia, USA! 2 Key new websites have been launched. Both complete rebuilds of corporate sites, Firstly the new BMS site has very little to do with myself, other than some testing and the post-it-pin-it integration on the contact page, that said it’s a fantastic design and takes us nicely into the modern web era with clean lines and sharper images. Secondly, the new Redsumo.com website practices what we preach by being a shopping cart solution itself, which is your one-stop shop to getting your new e-commerce site off the ground. I had a number of involvements on this site, more notably on the back-end configuration, than the front end design, but I’ve been working on some of the mobile theme stuff and getting my hands dirty with lots of PHP!

To see the sites click below:

BMS – http://www.beoleymill.co.uk

Redsumo.com – http://www.redsumo.com

Redsumo News – http://www.redsumo.com/blog

Latest Websites

New Demo Site!

Jonathan Ward — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:44:22 +0000

We have now finished the build of a demo shopping cart site to show our prospective (and existing) customers exactly what they can achieve by employing e-commerce solutions within their business.

Go there now: http://www.redsumoclients.co.uk/demoshop

New Demo Site!

Minor Redsumo.com Blog changes

Jonathan Ward — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:20 +0000

The Redsumo.com News Blog is aplatform for sharing stories from the local area and from our exciting customers. Recent changes include posts about our new customers (and their websites!) and also minor design changes such as new logos and layout manipulations!

Go there now: http://www.redsumo.com/blog

Minor Redsumo.com Blog changes

Another New Site

Jonathan Ward — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:02 +0000

This week has seen another rebuilt site go live – what used to be a boring, static BT style site is now a fresh, dynamic shopping cart!

http://www.aesthetox.co.uk

Another New Site

Latest Redsumo.com projects

Jonathan Ward — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:36:14 +0000

In the last few weeks a couple more sites have gone live:

http://www.anjapotze.com/
http://www.bransonscross.co.uk/

Latest Redsumo.com projects

Another site rebuild!

Jonathan Ward — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:27:13 +0000

This one doesn’t have much to do with me except some magic on the DNS end with Email domains etc!

http://www.profile-racing.com

Another site rebuild!

Latest sites involvement

Jonathan Ward — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:03:19 +0000

Over the last week or so I’ve been spending every spare minute from the day job on yet more Redsumo.com customer websites. The first of these is a WordPress blog for Adrian Ashby, a terminal cancer patient denied drugs based on his postcode! – the site is built to help raise £50,000 in order to provide the much needed drugs. Go to the site at: http://www.adrianashby.org.uk – From a technical point of view this site uses a cut down version of the Redsumo.com News Blog theme, and features HTML5 video, Auction bidding (using contact forms), and the usual social media integration.

The next site is a remake of ProfileKawasaki.co.uk which is broken due to malicious code, fortunately due to the new superbike season the site needed a complete revamp anyway, and the site is well underway with a new blogging platform sitting alongside the main site.

There’s another site with some WordPress magic, this is for Blenheim Hall (Pebworth) and their news page will contain posts from a WordPress blog but the content will appear as part of the main site theme, with the blog back-end providing the text only and not a seperate interface, this one is starting to look really good, and once it’s live I will be posting the links and cut down versions of the code used.

Latest sites involvement

WordPress Development

Jonathan Ward — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:51:06 +0000

I’ve spent the last 3 days improving my WordPress (and basic web) development skills, almost to a new level. The RedSumo Blog was previously used as a place to post technical findings, a little like how this site started out. There’s posts about PHP, MySQL, Linux etc. But with the way the company has changed, especially recently it was decided to use the blog platform as a way to promote products and services of not just RedSumo itself, but of all the customers who are hosted on the RedSumo servers and/ or designed by the very skilled team.
I have spent numerous hours manually re-coding the “Slicker Press” theme to make the site look a little like a newspaper/ magazine – taking inspiration (on design only!) from The Daily Mail etc.
There’s still a long way to go, however, the site is fully functional and has a few neat little features such as the Yahoo based weather widget, the Featured Posts slider and the customer logos sections.
If you’re interested to see how the developments going, head over to http://www.redsumo.com/blog now!

WordPress Development