David Dewhurst's Weblog

photo, a photo by dewhurstdesigns on Flickr.

A photo I took walking along the Thames from the O2 Millenium Dome to the Thames barrier.

Exciting news in my personal life. I’m going back to the UK for a year. Starting in September I’m taking study leave to do an MA in Interactive Media at the London College of Communication, a part of the University of the Arts London. I’m really exciting about this course and going back to life as a student again. In the mean time I need to save some money, back to a life of beans on toast…

You can vote on the Christmas special now, and when the new season starts come back here ever week to vote on the latest episode.

My Blog has been a bit quiet recently. But if you want to see what I’ve been up to in my professional like, feel free to connect to me on LinkedIn.

I have finally finished and uploaded an update to my website.

I’ve tried to give the site a fresh and modern look, and I’ve switched to a single page design with content loaded in dynamically. This should give a nice smooth experience when navigating the content, but by using anchor tags in the URL each page can still be bookmarked.

It has been an interesting design challenge, and I’m going to keep tweaking the design, especially to improve the look on small screens and window sizes.

For the last few weeks I’ve working on a new design for my main website (dewhurstdesigns.co.uk).

I’ve been experimenting with a single page format and using jQuery to get some nice animations, with dynamically loaded content.

It’s mainly a portfolio site and a hub to link my blog, twitter and other sites together. So check back in a couple of days to see the update…

I have finally implemented the popular request of showing new series two part stories as single combined averages.

From the full results page you can choose to view the two parters as single averages or each episode separately.

This joint average certainly makes the all time top ten much more interesting. Currently there are only three classic stories in the top ten, and two stories from the latest series (Amy’s Choice and The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone).

I’ve added Flesh and Stone to the Doctor Who Dynamic Rankings site. Currently this latest two parter is voted favourite of all Doctor Who stories ever! If you don’t agree, don’t forget to vote.

This is the last part of this seasons first two part story. Im currently working on updating the results page, so soon you will be able to view the results with two parters as a combined average.

The latest Doctor Who episodes, starring Matt Smith as the new Doctor, have been added to the Doctor Who Dynamic Rankings site. You can vote on each episode as it is broadcast.

The Doctor Who Dynamic Rankings site has just received a large update to it’s engine. This will make future updates easier and quicker. Episodes should appear much sooner after broadcast. Also stay tuned for new features coming soon.

You can now vote on Torchwood Children Of Earth at the Doctor Who Dynamic Rankings.

I have chosen allow you to vote only once for the whole season, rather than you being able to vote on each episode. This is because it is a single story with a single title. So it is more similar to a five part classic Doctor Who story, than a modern Torchwood or Doctor Who season.

The latest Doctor Who special Planet Of The Dead has been added to the Dynamic Rankings site. So if you have seen it, vote on how good you think the story was.

I’ve updated the Doctor Who Dynamic Rankings site so you can now vote for The Curse of Fatal Death. After you have done that why not buy the show from iTunes and help raise money for Comic Relief.

Friday is Red Nose Day in the UK so remember to tune in (BBC 1 from 7pm) for “a special mini-edition of The Sarah Jane Adventures, in which Elisabeth Sladen and K9 are joined by comedy legend Ronnie Corbett.” Sounds fantastic!

I’m finally getting into Twitter and I’m starting to prefer it to facebook. It cuts out all the hundreds of pointless apps and pokes and fan notices. Just the stuff you really want read. What your friends (and a few famous people) are up to.

I just wish I could find a decent always on App for my S60 mobile.

twitter.com/NorthernLife

Maybe I will try adding my twitters to my blog site as well.

I’ve just been forced to change internet servers for my Blog because Lycos has closed its server business. Moving has caused more problems than I had imagined. But I’ve finally got my blog posts restored from my Backup, I just need to restore all the images and themes I had.