23rdoctober.com

About

Adrian Murphy is a Senior Software Engineer, working for RM plc in Oxfordshire.

Yvonne Murphy is an Engineer at Interfleet Technology in Derbyshire.

Adrian and Yvonne married on the 23rd October 2004.

The sites purpose is to allow Yvonne and Adrian to share information and photos with their friends and relatives, as well as to allow both of them to play around with web sites.

The site was originally created in May 2004 to share information on their upcoming wedding, which is where it gets its name from.

The site is built using a simple content management tool called CityDesk from FogCreek software. The site is produced in fully valid CSS and XHTML for the best results across different browsers. Testing however is mainly performed in FireFox and Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP.

All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Version 2.4

Released: 11/01/05: Streamlined the Latest Photos display on the homepage to one thumbnail which is now clickable and removed photo galleries from the main list. Also added previous and next buttons to photo galleries.

Version 2.3

Released: 07/12/04: More tweaking of the look and feel, most notably widening the main layout by 100 pixels.

Version 2.2

Released: 07/11/04: Rearranged and updated the site, introducing an Archives section, for old wedding information. Also updated the site to reflect the fact our wedding is now in the past! Oh and fixed Yvonne's previous fixes ;o)

Version 2.1

Released: 23/10/04: Important fix by Yvonne on night before wedding.

Version 2.0.3

Released: 21/09/04: Minor tweak to css. Links can now be discerned in the Important Panes.

Version 2.0.2

Released: 03/09/04: The main banner graphic has been chopped in size from 26k to 4k. The colophon and about pages have been updated. The timeline information within The Big Day has been consolidated. The important panes have been made more visible.

Version 2.0.1

Released: 01/09/04: The blue background has been modified as it was appearing as gray on a lot of monitors. The shading on the main content area has also been improved.

Version 2.0

Released: 30/08/04. The idea behind version 2 was to make room for more content as well as improving the design and usability. The XHTML markup has been rewritten and styles totally revamped. The site structure has also been changed.

Version 1.0

Released: 01/07/04. The original web site can still be viewed here: 23rdOctober.com v1.