WordPress doesn’t handle pagination brilliantly in that it doesn’t offer anything more than next/ previous page out of the box. There are unlimited post pagination plugins out there, but I like to keep my plugin list as small as possible, and I prefer to be in control of things myself – especially for something relatively [...]

It’s been a while since my last post. Isn’t that always the way, good intentions aren’t as fast as the space time continuum. Since the last post I’ve had a son, Ezekiel. He’s a very fun little chappie, if a little demanding. As such I had the last two weeks off as paternity leave. And [...]

But they will interpretate every notice on a website in a way that you didn’t mean. You’ll then end up shouting some profanity, or something less severe (depending on your mood and surroundings) when you realise… But the fact is that the user (customer) is right. And that annoyance is actually aimed at yourself. They [...]

The Transition A good few years ago I invested in Adobe CS3 Web Premium. It was at the start of my freelance career – I say start, I mean the point at which I thought “I’d better buy a legitimate copy of this now”. I’ve been using Photoshop since version 5 whilst at university. So [...]

I’m revamping the subscription process on the Singletrack website at the moment, and as we will soon be taking Direct Debit online (we currently take credit cards online using the excellent Spreedly). We’ll therefore need an SSL certificate on this section of the site. I’ve set up a new ‘blog’ using WP Multisite, which will [...]

All my work is done, or was done, on an iMac. At home I have a 24″ Core 2 Duo that I got what must be 3 years ago. I’ve only upgraded the RAM to max out at 4 GB and replaced the hard drive with a 1 TB for all my media. At work [...]