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New Rentokil Initial site launched and featured on Stylegala | 4 Comments

Posted in Work on 9th September 2005, 2:23 pm by

Today the new Rentokil Initial web-site was launched.

Well done to all of the people that played a part in putting this site together. (Quick plug for everyone’s personal sites there!)

We have also been featured in Stylegala which is a great result.

After Tim and I got the chance to go to @media2005 we have been able to bring webstandards to the fore of what we do. Before this site was re-done, as a collective the web-team contributed to creating best practices for the development of this site, and I feel this approach has worked well in making sure everyone who worked on this site was on the same page.

Paul’s design supports the content well and though it’s not the most revolutionary design, that is merely because this is a corporate site and pink flamingos and butterflys just don’t get a look in.

Tim worked really hard to get the mark-up as pure as possible before any of the styles were applied and the attention to detail shows.

We are still slave to content generated through CMS and third-party services but hopefully these are wrinkles that can be ironed our over time.

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  • http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/ Andrew Taylor

    Excellent looking site, has shown me some interesting methods and ideas to bear in mind (not that I do much site design any more).

    If only all sites would appreciate similar markup, CSS and accessibility.

    A much needed improvement on the old site. Congrats!

  • http://www.enableinteractive.co.uk Nic Rodgers

    Great stuff, well done. I love the liquid layout.

    Just one small thing, which I think would massively help, is to highlight the tab for the section in which you are currently in. Should be relatively easy to implement too.

  • http://www.muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart

    @Andrew and Nic – Thanks for the complimentary remarks.

    @ Nic – As for the highlighting, that sounds like a good idea I’ll put your suggestion forward.

  • http://www.nefariousdesigns.co.uk/ Timbo

    That’s a bloody good point. Why don’t we highlight which section you are currently in?

    I guess the breadcrumb kinda does that, but still…

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(2)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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