Comments for Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/blog ...thoughts and musings... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on being still… by Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/10/13/being-still/#comment-9547 Joe Lafferty Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:09:07 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/10/13/test-blog-article/#comment-9547 Kay, thanks for your comment & encouragement! It was a special moment & what a privilege to be able to capture it... And the image really helped ‘set the scene’ for a really important 2 days team development. kind regards, Joe Kay,
thanks for your comment & encouragement!
It was a special moment & what a privilege to be able to capture it…
And the image really helped ‘set the scene’ for a really important 2 days team development.
kind regards,
Joe

]]> Comment on being still… by Kay http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/10/13/being-still/#comment-9546 Kay Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:13:12 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/10/13/test-blog-article/#comment-9546 Hi Joe Just having a quick look at your blog. Your photo of the fisherman on the lochan at the SMC is simply immense. I’ve spent many happy days and weekends at the SMC, both as a learner and in my OUBS tutoring role…walking and jogging around this little scene, yet I’ve never seen it like this. Simply stunning. Thank you for sharing this. Makes me feel happy! Kay Hi Joe

Just having a quick look at your blog. Your photo of the fisherman on the lochan at the SMC is simply immense.

I’ve spent many happy days and weekends at the SMC, both as a learner and in my OUBS tutoring role…walking and jogging around this little scene, yet I’ve never seen it like this. Simply stunning.

Thank you for sharing this. Makes me feel happy!

Kay

]]> Comment on assault or leadership? by Doug Flett http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/22/assault-or-leadership/#comment-9175 Doug Flett Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:31:17 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=215#comment-9175 Ah, if Scotland could embrace the models of its pioneering leaders and learn old lessons once again. There is leadership debate in the nation. In the governmental realm the think-tank Reform Scotland reported, "..key to obtaining better public services in Scotland, was decentralising reform...decisions taken as close as possible to the people.." We in Queensferry are setting up a stakeholder group for that very reason. And business? Well the marketplace is always talking about leadership, because good leadership is good for business. The church has the biggest problem with leadership. Where a business of 100 people will be run by a Board of Directors with a variety of skills; HR, accountancy, sales, research, management, engineering, design, chairmanship and so on, the church has to get by with a leader trained in Greek and pastoral care with some ability in public speaking. They are one-man bands who are mostly responsible for the horrendous condition of the church today. Scotland indeed needs to re-learn good leadership. We are a lively, intelligent and creative nation suppressed by its leaders more than we are encouraged by them. Ah, if Scotland could embrace the models of its pioneering leaders and learn old lessons once again. There is leadership debate in the nation. In the governmental realm the think-tank Reform Scotland reported, “..key to obtaining better public services in Scotland, was decentralising reform…decisions taken as close as possible to the people..” We in Queensferry are setting up a stakeholder group for that very reason.

And business? Well the marketplace is always talking about leadership, because good leadership is good for business.

The church has the biggest problem with leadership. Where a business of 100 people will be run by a Board of Directors with a variety of skills; HR, accountancy, sales, research, management, engineering, design, chairmanship and so on, the church has to get by with a leader trained in Greek and pastoral care with some ability in public speaking. They are one-man bands who are mostly responsible for the horrendous condition of the church today.

Scotland indeed needs to re-learn good leadership. We are a lively, intelligent and creative nation suppressed by its leaders more than we are encouraged by them.

]]> Comment on New WordPress theme by Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/22/new-wordpress-theme/#comment-9154 Joe Lafferty Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:51:35 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=211#comment-9154 cheers Rick, I'll delve into the CSS and see how i can do it & get back to the other theme. I agree re variable widths tho' didn't think about it as i liked the theme so much. My new MacBook Pro has 1900 x 1200 as does my extended monitor. ...but lots to do today so no time to fiddle with blog! Joe cheers Rick,
I’ll delve into the CSS and see how i can do it & get back to the other theme.
I agree re variable widths tho’ didn’t think about it as i liked the theme so much.
My new MacBook Pro has 1900 x 1200 as does my extended monitor.
…but lots to do today so no time to fiddle with blog!
Joe

]]> Comment on New WordPress theme by Rick http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/22/new-wordpress-theme/#comment-9153 Rick Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:37:05 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=211#comment-9153 Didn't mean to make you change your theme!!! If you really wanted to use the other theme there's a simple line of css that could be added to it that would add the max-width setting and limit it's maximum width. Personally I wouldn't worry much about IE6 not supporting that option, It's an old browser these days and it's got many issues besides the lack of min-width and max-width! The whole issue of fixed vs flexible always sparks up a lot of debate on the web, one other issue that affects it is that Opera, Firefox 3, IE7(& 8) as well as the next version of Safari browsers all support zooming of layouts rather than just text resizing, so it kind of makes the benefits of flexible widths less useful. I do tend to stick with fixed with sites targeted at a 1024px width, but for flexible sites then I'd use a min-width of 760px and a max width of about 1200px, this is so that it would fit between 800px and 1280px screen resolutions. Many people do use larger than 1280px these days so the max-width setting stops widths getting too big. Didn’t mean to make you change your theme!!! If you really wanted to use the other theme there’s a simple line of css that could be added to it that would add the max-width setting and limit it’s maximum width. Personally I wouldn’t worry much about IE6 not supporting that option, It’s an old browser these days and it’s got many issues besides the lack of min-width and max-width!

The whole issue of fixed vs flexible always sparks up a lot of debate on the web, one other issue that affects it is that Opera, Firefox 3, IE7(& 8) as well as the next version of Safari browsers all support zooming of layouts rather than just text resizing, so it kind of makes the benefits of flexible widths less useful. I do tend to stick with fixed with sites targeted at a 1024px width, but for flexible sites then I’d use a min-width of 760px and a max width of about 1200px, this is so that it would fit between 800px and 1280px screen resolutions. Many people do use larger than 1280px these days so the max-width setting stops widths getting too big.

]]> Comment on WordPress Theme by Rick http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/20/wordpress-theme/#comment-9152 Rick Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:31:00 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=118#comment-9152 I wouldn't worry too much about IE6 these days anyway! ;) I wouldn’t worry too much about IE6 these days anyway! ;)

]]> Comment on WordPress Theme by Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/20/wordpress-theme/#comment-9137 Joe Lafferty Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:08:16 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=118#comment-9137 Rick, really good feedback - thanks! I'll go on the hunt again... (now i'm using a mac, i forgot about IE6!! Joe Rick,
really good feedback - thanks!
I’ll go on the hunt again… (now i’m using a mac, i forgot about IE6!!
Joe

]]> Comment on WordPress Theme by Rick http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/09/20/wordpress-theme/#comment-9126 Rick Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:26:24 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=118#comment-9126 Don't you think the lines lengths get too long on the main content with the flexible layout? Beyond 12 words it can be a lot harder to read. It's more of an issue these days as people get larger and larger screen resolutions. The theme you're using does have a minimum width setting of 800px so it won't get any narrower than that but ideally it should specify a maximum width of around 1200px to stop line lengths getting too long. IE6 doesn't support either min-width or max-width CSS settings so regardless users of that browser will see a squished or stretched site! Don’t you think the lines lengths get too long on the main content with the flexible layout? Beyond 12 words it can be a lot harder to read. It’s more of an issue these days as people get larger and larger screen resolutions.

The theme you’re using does have a minimum width setting of 800px so it won’t get any narrower than that but ideally it should specify a maximum width of around 1200px to stop line lengths getting too long.

IE6 doesn’t support either min-width or max-width CSS settings so regardless users of that browser will see a squished or stretched site!

]]> Comment on 4th July Fireworks over Manhattan Skyline by Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/07/05/80/#comment-7001 Joe Lafferty Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:10:32 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=80#comment-7001 Thanks Rupert! Really looking forward to meeting up later in the summer. Joe Thanks Rupert!
Really looking forward to meeting up later in the summer.
Joe

]]> Comment on 4th July Fireworks over Manhattan Skyline by Rupert http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/2008/07/05/80/#comment-7000 Rupert Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:43:34 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=80#comment-7000 Fantastic photo Joe ... have a great holiday. Be good to catch up when you are back. Fantastic photo Joe … have a great holiday. Be good to catch up when you are back.

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