Just been sent the link to a web site for a friend’s new company and I’m very impressed – I know who to ask for advice about website design now.

The company, iSynergy Consulting, does website design & development (including things like PHP, database work and flash animations) as well as e-marketing. Check out the portfolio for some more examples of cool sites they’ve produced.

If you need a web site designed, enhanced or just an e-marketing campaign planned, try sending them an email.

blueDonkey.org now has a favicon.ico file. Not very imaginative I know, but the donkey logo did not scale down too well to the 16×16 size that the favicon.ico file needs to be.

Oddly though, my copy of Internet Explorer, which is the browser that first added support for this file, doesn’t see it. Nor does it see the icons for any other web sites I visit. The Microsoft site doesn’t even seem to have such a file anymore.

So, those using IE might, or might not see the icon. Use a real browser if you want to be sure of seeing it (not to mention avoiding the security and rendering problems that IE has as well).

Just spent 10 minutes tweaking the style sheet and the view template to improve the navigational links inside the TWiki system. The change basically adds the parents to the footer of each page, but it also tidies up some of the layout in the header.

Well, I got a few more of the pages working last night on my local server here at home. All the main pages are now running, the database is also running smoothly, and several of the pop-up pages are also done. The rest shouldn’t take too long, but it does look as though web sites like this take a minimum of 2 weeks of effort to put together.

What is C.Y.S.M.P. exactly? It’s a system for job seekers to (a) track the companies that they are interested in working for, and (b) attempt to find contacts at those companies who can help get them a position. The latter of these is kind of like the Kevin Bacon thing – with enough members in the system, it should be possible for the site to find a path through the members and their contacts to a contact in most companies. Once it has a path, it can send an email to the member at the start of the chain requesting an introduction to their contact.

Will it work? I don’t know. It will depend a lot on how many members are signed up and actively using the system to track their contacts, and how willing people are to provide introductions to their contacts. The system will never reveal one member’s contact to another member, so the introductions are essential if the thing is going to work.

Right now, I’m heading out to lunch. Going to be working on something else this afternoon, but hope to get some more of the pages written tonight, and maybe even get an alpha release up on blueDonkey.org today.