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07 Mar 2018

Email Obfuscate

Sadly there are a number of “spambots” which roam the web “harvesting” email addresses to send spam to. Often you have no choice but to include a mailto link with an email address in a web page. Fortunately most of these spambots do not seem to have complete HTML parsers, and most do not execute […]

18 Dec 2017

IFTTT

Simply put ‘if this, then that ‘ – Amongst other things this little piece of ingenuity helps me manage content going out from the website to various social media sites. This post will be automatically uploaded to facebook and twitter with links back to the website. And of course when we have a clear night I […]

27 Nov 2017

Bootstrap 4 WordPress Theme

I have been working on a WordPress (WP) Theme which uses the new Bootstrap 4 framework. I have found that many WP themes which are available tend to be bloated with features and functionality which is un-necessary – this leads to a lot of time spent removing these features, so that the website management is uncluttered. Too […]

06 Jul 2015

Working to make a simple CMS more effective

Quite often I get asked to extend a website’s design and layouts into areas where the original developers had only made available a simple HTML text area. For some template driven websites … this can make the pages rather repetitive and boring. The alternative can be to request the original developer to create new templates […]

02 Apr 2015

Is your website mobile friendly?

It has been heading this way for quite sometime and with Google’s date of the 21st April looming – the dilemma is – just how (mobile) friendly does a site need to be? We can’t ignore the fact that websites are being accessed increasingly through mobile devices (smartphones and tablets). Depending on where you look, statistics […]