Still very quiet here, still relaxing (mostly). I’m still working on updating three websites, and also thinking hard about changing the Oakleaf Circle site over to a CMS. At least twice in the past, I’ve attempted to do this but had to abandon the effort. However, since then I’ve had more practice using WordPress as […]
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….Earlier this year I won an iPod in a draw, and started listening to podcasts. I get insomnia quite a lot, so it’s something to listen to in bed that doesn’t disturb my partner. Wanting to do something useful with those hours, I listen mainly to science and web design podcasts. After listening to maybe […]
Feeling quite pleased with myself – just spen a good hour submitting the newly-completed Windows Hotline website to the search engines. I’m never sure if this is really necessary – good design, standards-compliant coding, keywords and linking should be enough, along with one-time submission to Google, Yahoo Search, Bing and DMOZ. However, companies pay quite […]
Almost finished the Windows Hotline site. I’d started out thinking it would be a very simple bit of work – a straightforward HTML site with some slideshow galleries for the products. A fortnight’s work at most. But of course, rapid complications developed. First, the client hated the template and logo I’d lovingly crafted, so I […]
Yeah, not posted for a while. Life has been very quiet here since Oakleaf. Nearly got a web design job; that didn’t pan out in the end, so I’ve been noodling around on the comp polishing up my design, CSS and CMS skills. Just come across a nice new CMS called Pixie; it’s small, basic, […]
The computer saga continues…. After my motherboard blew, I remembered there were a couple of old boards at the bottom of my Big Box of Computer Bits. I went a looked, and joy, both of them took my processor and memory. One of them, I knew, wasn’t working (don’t ask me why I’d kept it); […]
….I completely redesigned the front end of this website. I spent a couple of days beforehand cruising around web-designers’ websites, putting myself in the place of a potential customer and noting what worked and what didn’t (tip no.1: don’t boast about how your sites are correctly coded and conform to web standards, and how your […]
I’m getting more involved in Facebook – I’m now in the networks of two daughters and a son-in-law. Nice to be able to keep up with family like this. For the last 24 hours, I’ve had a headache. It’s much better now, but was pretty bad yesterday. I had the spend the day lying down; […]
Having got the new online Transit almost ready to upload, I have been told that I’ve got it wrong. Which I didn’t. Originally, I was told that Transit would cease hardcopy publication, but would continue online, with its own dedicated site. So I worked at developing a super-whizzy, Web2.0 online magazine with articles, video content […]
…about techie web development matters in this post, so pass over if you’re not interested. Transferring a complete WordPress blog from one server to another is supposed to be pretty simple – WordPress has an Import/Export function that makes it almost a one-click operation. Having got the new WordPress-based Transit site almost complete on my […]