What's 6 times 9 for?
6 times 9 is the home of the various tools and whatnot that I've created during the course of designing websites, which currently include:
- CSS Page Layout Templates - A collection of simple page layouts that you're welcome to use. There are examples of each one, and I'm hoping it won't be too long before I add my ideas for more complex additions to the layouts.
- Galsing Flickr - Galsing (short for 'Gallery Single') is a PHP script for creating single page photo archives (where 'single page' means that the script is a single file, not that all the photos are shown together on one page).
- JavaScript & PHP Library - Some useful tools I've created using JavaScript and PHP.
- Online Tools - Some useful (and some random) tools and calculators I've created, mainly using PHP, that are available for use on this site - although not necessarily available for download.
- Warwick Blogs Grabber - A PHP script to take the RSS feed for a Warwick Blog, format it, and output the result to allow the blog to be mirrored on another website.
- Web Design Guides - A variety of hints, tips, and guides - from general overviews to more in-depth walkthroughs - on various aspects of web design.
- I'll also be adding GalsingFlickr and a few other sections, too.
There's now an RSS feed for easy notification of the infrequent updates to all 6 times 9 projects.
Why "6 times 9"?
It's a reference to the fantastic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams - in the story the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is found to be "42"; the Question itself is later incorrectly discovered to be "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?". In base 13, 6 times 9 happens to equal 42, but this is a coincidence, as Douglas Adams is on record as saying "Nobody writes jokes in base 13 [...] I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."1
You may also be interested in the similarly themed HTTP 404 Error page, and I also recommend you investigate the books if you haven't already read them; here's a a handy link to Amazon.co.uk.