Call me old fashioned but going into London to meet fellow web people is a chore I can do without... so if you're based in or around Reading Berkshire would you like to meet up for a coffee / pint / being sociable?
If you’d like to meet up for an evening and a chat how about Thursday 26th Jan at the Risc café in Reading?
Drop me a line through the contact form…

Designing a Victorian-style website.

How to make a website that says ‘Victorian’, but without the need to resort to sepia images of steam engines, top hats, or sewing samplers; When the content of the site is intrinsically Victorian and you don’t want to do a Steam Punk rehash of blogger.

I mentioned to a fellow web designer whose lyrical style of work I admire greatly that I was setting up reallysimplesites. I just got a tweet by reply…

“It's really good! Like the Gruppo [font], the graphics & your attitude too — seen plenty of agencies promise more & deliver far less!”

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If you like good looking, high end web design, check out their site.

Many thanks!

So, have you noticed the rather fine font I’m using for reallysimplesites.co.uk? It’s called “Gruppo” and it’s a little different, chances are it’s not in your font file.

I am now talking to a major literary publication about taking their ‘dead tree’ publication online with a new and exciting Drupal-based site.

The project is well suited to Drupal’s taxonomy-based linking and custom content types and fields.

I am writing this sat at a desk in an English holiday cottage – and no, it’s not raining – and I have just had one of those conversations with my dad where I try to persuade him that he really should back up some of his data.

If you are looking for the Ivan Hirst site, It's over here...

Behind all the sites I build is Drupal. It is used as a back-end system for almost 2% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.

PasswordCard is a free app, a website and a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them when you log in on your Mac! – (That part you can leave to 1Password). You just keep the card with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.