Yesterday I received emails from three different server companies informing me of a global DoS attack. Luckily for me and the people I make website for I only host sites with reputable companies. This paid dividends as each of the companies we have sites hosted with each sent through both the warning and each sent through the recommendation… Continue Reading
Preparing a picture for the internet Part 1
I am asked about this often. We’ve all done it. Posted a picture straight from the camera. Unedited, fat and slow to come down. This short article will lay out some ways for making pictures sweeter online and hopefully lead to a better experience for your reader. Resolution It is the law. Make your images… Continue Reading
Help for Haiti ~ Design, Build and Maintain
I was approached through a mutual acquaintance to develop a website in a hurry in support of an emergency fundraising initiative to benefit Haiti, a country in the grips of a cholera epidemic following recent devastation by Hurricane Sandy. The loose collaboration of organisations, companies and individuals gathered for this project already had a Facebook… Continue Reading
Work begins on ÜPSTAGING Ltd
ÜPSTAGING Ltd supply stages and crew for events both here in the UK and wider into Europe. They have an existing website that has stood still for a while. With new tours across Europe booked fort he coming months ÜPSTAGING Ltd have decided to take the plunge and redevelop their old site into a living… Continue Reading
Exeter based PR company remodel
I’ve worked with Ellen Carroll for years on and off. Her company, Nellie PR, were early adopters of social media and blogging. They saw the potential and are benefiting from understanding what social media is and how it can be best used in a business to business environment. Yesterday I completed www.nelliepr.co.uk This is… Continue Reading
Digital Inclusion Thoughts
I have been in love with the internet since I first encountered it at university in the mid ’90′s. The thing that attracted me and hooked me so deeply was the universality of it all. A bit of coding in Note Pad and some command prompts were all one needed to have equal footing to… Continue Reading
Nottingham Counselling Service
Nottingham Counselling Service (NCS) has been providing counselling services in Nottingham for over 30 years and is one of the most respected and established providers of counselling services and therapy in the East Midlands, UK. Nottingham Counselling Service needed a new website that they could maintain themselves. The site had to have a directory of… Continue Reading
The EU Cookie Monster
The European e-Privacy Directive became law in the UK from the 25th of May 2011. Sounds really serious but what is it? The simple answer is that no one is quite sure yet. The idea is to protect people’s privacy by allowing readers to choose if they accept cookies or not when they visit a… Continue Reading
Under the hood
It’s been a little bit busy this weekend. I’ve been working on three WordPress websites, two locally here in the Vale of Belvoir and one for a client down in Exeter. After looking at code, graphics and layout pretty solidly since Friday lunchtime I thought I’d take a moment to show you what a website… Continue Reading
Is it all about the money?
Lately I’ve been toe dipping in old school web development for small businesses. It’s been a while. For the past few years the web work I’ve engaged in concerns whole team development. Sites that require copywriters, coders, designers, project managers (that was my role) and have the budgets to support all of this industry. Outside… Continue Reading