Archive for 'Web Authoring' Category

Two new websites

13 April 2008

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 […]

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Brief website update

11 March 2008

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 […]

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Triffle

24 July 2007

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 […]

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British surnames

1 June 2007

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.

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Snake Oil

13 July 2006

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 […]

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Why your hotel doesn’t show up in Google (clue: it’s not their fault)

11 March 2006

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:
Having read your article on how difficult it is to find individual hotel websites via search engines, and being a professional web author myself, […]

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Why you can’t have too much information in your database

1 March 2006

This question was posted in uk.net.web.authoring:
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 […]

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It works!

28 February 2006

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.

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