Film makers gather audience online to pressure distributors

Nobody Wants Your Film is a website for an independant film about the making of an independant film... the film is not due for release and so they are taking registrations online to put together evidence of audience to take to distributors to get a release!

I registered, despite a really counter-intuitive user interface which makes it really hard to navigate this site. Nonetheless, interesting concept and those interested will probably battle through the bad navigation system to the registration form regardless.

So, does the film look any good? Not sure - two of the three clips on the initial pages were quite interesting. Just enough that I would go and see the film which claims to be an insight into the making of movies in Hollywood, both on set and behind the scenes with the money men...

ALA again...

"One of the biggest problems in delivering a website, and yet probably the least talked and written about, is how to decide, specify, and communicate just what, exactly, is it that we’re going to build, and why. What problem are we solving? Who needs it? What’s this site for, anyway?"

Amen to that. Interesting approach to solving these issues.

Forms - show and hide optional parts

{ style:phreak; } Standard Forms - Updated

Another interesting show/hide solution - I haven't looked at this one in depth yet, but it looks pretty good...

show and hide divs

Let Them Eat Cake: A List Apart

Another wonderful ALA article, this time about showing and hiding divs using a mix of javascript and css..

IE and the Object element

IE Objectifier | jenseng.com

I was looking at iframes as a solution to a small project I was working on, then I found out they were being dropped from XHTML... so I began to look into the alternatives, and it seems <object> is the way we should be going... except ie has problems with it.

This article looks at how <object> will replace <img> altogether in XHTML 2.0 and how you can use it now in most browsers and gives a script to use for use in IE.

Cork European Capital of Culture 2005

Well, the launch of Cork 2005 is rapidly approaching, Saturday the 8th is the official launch. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, I am talking about Cork, Ireland which is European capital of culture for 2005.

I went to another "Where's Me Culture?" meeting last night, it was pretty interesting - for those of you who don't know they have organised a Party on the evening of the 8th in Cork city, which looks like it will be pretty good. There are three rooms and one of the rooms will be free to enter for those who can't afford or don't want to go ito the other rooms. The entrance is 10 euros for the other two rooms, so it's well worth it.

The official program's for Cork 2005 apparently has no events for that evening other than a party for the bigwigs - politicians etc. However I can't corroborate that fact because I found the official programme too confusing to figure out what was on. Guess I'm that stupid. The Cork 2005 website is somewhat easier to decipher regarding what's on when but it's not brilliant either to be honest. For some reason they have hidden the calendar feature, which I think is the best - you have to get off the home page to access the calendar, and there's no obvious link to it. Go to 'what's new' for example and you'll see a calendar - click on any day to see what's on for that date.

'Where's Me Culture?' are also bringing out a magazine and hopefully some BifSniff cartoons will feature. They are looking for submissions, so if you have potential content for this regular Cork 2005 magazine get in touch with them.

Here's the the Euorpean capital of Culture for 2005!