I was recently told by my former boss from CADS Consulting to collaborate with him on an educational project he got. He’s new to PHP and wants to make a PHP version of what he has already [we wrote it together in Asp.NET].

The project is sponsored by MTN Nigeria so I had to come up with a suitable clone that displays similarly across all browsers [they’re deploying on Linux].

I think I’ve done beautifully and for once commend myself on my work. I intend to make it an Ajax system for speed. Since it supports themes, I made the theme structure very very similar — it just switches a particular stylesheet for colours.

Internet Explorer as usual has a bug — the bottom background of the page doesn’t change (except you minimise the window and restore it). I wish someone would give Microsoft a lesson in browser design.

The current prototype (just design) can be found at the Demo page. You can change the theme by using the dropdown list on the left. I have another minor problem — the MTN  Logo doesn’t  fit well with the green and blue backgrounds. I also haven’t added Previous, Next and Bookmark buttons on the left.

The menus, like all menus I use are pure css (IE needs a little javascript jogging to make them work unlike all other browsers) — it’s made up of lists so unlike the ones on the MTN site, it is search-engine-crawlable.