November 1st, 2008

FAQs by category

A follow up on my previous entry creating a simple FAQ page with ExpressionEngine.  This entry shows how to list the FAQs by category, with links to each FAQ’s anchor on the FAQ page.

Just to show how easy ExpressionEngine makes many things:

A client asked for an FAQ page.  30 minutes later and it’s done (the majority of that time spent on changing some of the CSS file).  This is how I did it (note, this is just one way, there are probably better ways and certainly you can do clever things with javascript, but this way is simple and works well):

What’s going on?  What’s the motivation?

The Labour government and it rag tag collection of coalition partners ram unpopular legislation down our throats (e.g. the anti-smacking law, the Electoral Finance Act which bans free speech and now a bill which will give the Health Commissioner the ability to tell the media what they can report about health issues - talk about Big Brother) yet when 70 or 80 percent of the population support the banning of cell phones while driving the Government doesn’t want to legislate.  Something stinks here;

There’s a rat in the kitchen, what am I gonna do?

Well not in the kitchen, but in Anca’s car. While we were sharing our small flat in town I stored a box of crockery in Anca’s friend’s garden shed. We took the box to our new house in Glenfield.  Luckily I decided to have a look at what was in it before taking in the house.

Everything had been wrapped in paper but now ...

March 9th, 2008

Wedding

The invitations have been sent and D-Day is rapidly approaching.  Our wedding is on 27 April 2008 in Taupo and 10 May in Cluj.  See the Wedding page for further details.

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