12Dec

An Ode to Twitter …

general

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything on my own blog, and this post has actually taken me weeks to write. When I first launched this blog, my first post was about Twitter and a great friend I made that sadly passed away. If you missed it you can read it here.
Since [...]

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22Aug

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” plugin errors after upgrading to Wordpress 3

techie tips

If, like me you develop websites using Wordpress and also write your own plugins you may well come across this problem.
I recently wrote a bespoke plugin to store and manage e-news subscriptions within the admin panel (I haven’t yet released it). I had written this plugin prior to the release of Wordpress 3 and everything [...]

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29May

Creative Boom comes to Shropshire

general, news
Creative Boom Logo

You may or may not know that I’ve been working with the guys behind Creative Boom quite a lot this year and was lucky enough to be involved in helping them update the website to their fantastic new design.
Well, the time has come for a Shrewsbury hub!
For anybody that isn’t already aware of Creative Boom, [...]

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24Jan

The importance of error pages …

search engine optimization, techie tips
404 error page in IE7

So, you’ve built this super cool website. You are really pleased with it and you set it live expecting great things. But wait, the client has rung you to say that when they search for their site on google their old listings are still there but when they click through they get ‘404 Error [...]

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05Jan

Happy New Year!

general, news
Creative Boom Birmingham HTML Enews

So we finally made it to 2010 and the noughties are at an end. I don’t know what this means to all of you but to me it means its been 10 years since I graduated from university. Which successfully makes me feel very old! ~ grin!
I’ve already seen lots of blog posts predicting design/web [...]

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