I’ve mentioned before that I am very happy with my current webhosts, they are fantastic, but I still like to look around to see what else is out there.  I’ve been looking to see if cloud hosting is better for what I need, or whether a dedicated or virtual server (VPS) would suit my needs better, and I’ll...

I’m a firm believer in giving credit where it is due, and that will come in just a short while.  Firstly though, I would like to apologise to anyone who tried to access my site yesterday afternoon and found themselves unable to do so.  There was a problem with a plug-in which the site uses, which caused the whole...

Working in web development I often wonder what the best doctype to code a website in is.  At University I was taught to use XHTML, other articles suggest using HTML, and then there’s the need to figure out whether to go with transitional or strict.  So many options, and when you are close to making a decision, HTML...

It’s been nearly two months since my last post, and there’s been a lot going on in my life in that time. I’ve changed got a new job, moved house (into temporary accommodation), moved house again (to where I am now), got settled in my job, got everything un-packed (finally) and once again have internet...

Joomla, the world’s most popular open source content management system (CMS) was released as a new version this week, going from 1.7.4 to 2.5.  In which, it has the core of the product de-coupled from the CMS functionality so people can use it to build web applications, much in the way they might with CodeIgniter, Cake...