A miscellany of opinions, thoughts, rants and comments
In the course of a discussion about fixed v fluid width layouts for web pages, I dared to make the comment that fixed width design can actually be a usability bonus in some cases – something which is close to heresy among web design purists. As I pointed out, most web users are non-technical, and [...]
My photo gallery runs on Gallery2, which I like as a storage and display system but it’s not one of the most flexible photo gallery systems out there. Other than changing the themes and templates, it’s hard to customise the key functionality of it without using plugins – and if there isn’t one to do what [...]
Back in the self-promotional mood, I’ve got a couple of new websites to release to an unsuspecting public today. For a long time, I’ve been thinking that the concept used for MotorwayServices.Info could well be suitable for some other kind of review/rate site, and it ocurred to me that railway stations might be a suitable [...]
It’s been ages since I last blogged anything, so this is merely a self-serving post to remind the world that I’m still alive and point out that I’ve updated a couple of my websites.
To begin with, now that I no longer have any need for a website advertising freelance work, I’ve redesigned www.good-stuff.co.uk to be [...]
While the Friday Fun website is offline for redevelopment, I’ve moved most of the jokes it contained to a new home at www.triffle.org. It seemed a bit pointless to have a huge database of stuff just sitting around doing nothing, so I’ve thrown together a cheap and cheeerful website using a freeware CSS template and [...]
I’ve moved the British Surnames website to a new domain: www.britishsurnames.co.uk (kind of obvious, really). It’s also had a bit of a redesign, and a few new and somewhat funky features added.
I was asked by a colleague to help them extract some text from a page that had been “protected” by a form of HTML encryption – the type of thing where the page is encoded by javascript and only displays if you’ve got scripting enabled.
Of course, getting the text out was trivial. There are several [...]
There’s an article in the travel section of today’s Times, bemoaning the fact that you can’t find hotel websites in Google. I was sufficiently moved by it to send them this email:
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I’ve got a site on the way, where I need to add products to a sort of simple shopping basket. The plan is to add a pair of values (UserID, ProductID) to a MySQL database for every product the user adds to the basket, and then get rid of them [...]
This is probably one of the easiest installs I’ve ever done. based on this evidence, I can certainly recommend Wordpress as a blogging tool.