The
English Guy
Web Design

Yesterday I finished up the new theme I was working on for a week or two - Red Portal. It’s just something I was playing around with, letting the top and bottom horizontal sections remain static as you scroll the page. The page itself is divided into two columns, one content, and one sidebar.
The only [...]

Today I have been doing some housecleaning, and plenty more to follow I might add.
I found out today for example, that the forwarding set up at my old business was removed (without my knowledge, or any say-so mind you) and so any download links from this blog to any of my themes would not have [...]

To one and all - Happy Christmas!
It doesn’t look like it though, just like another dreary November day, a little grey, not freezing mind you. No wind either, and it was a bit foggy this morning.
But anyway, looks like there’ll be lots of good food to eat, I’ll be opening up the sloe gin I [...]

I think that of all the Christmas’s I remember the best ones are when it has snowed. Nevermind the huge sacks of presents when I was a little kid (although those rate highly, mind you), it’s the snow that does it. I suppose that’s why so many of us wish for a white Christmas.
It just [...]

‘Tis flu season, don’t you know?
And I caught it, from a friend of mine who had had it about a week ago. Oli, I owe you for this. Or rather you owe me for three days off work!
Anyway I called the Doctor’s this morning thinking that three days with a sore throat and no end [...]

Since I don’t drive here, I find myself having little sympathy for the day to day woes of drivers, the high gas petrol bill for example, or the charges that the government is debating for driving every mile (more in the city, less in the rural areas, more in congested roads, less in small country [...]

About a year ago I made a conscious effort to try to apply every standard and commonly-held rule to my coding. This was mainly to add the ‘Valid XHTML‘ and ‘Valid CSS‘ links at the bottom of my blogs, websites and so on. Whether or not people cared didn’t really come into the equation - [...]

Well from this little story, I think we have a ways to go yet. Here’s what the neural network at the end of the tale finally produced (having being put to work doing prose):

The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is [...]

Working for a sign company you get to work on quite a diverse lot of signs and advertising. Some of it is straightforward, sometimes it’s purely informational signs, do this - don’t do that etc., We don’t see cutting edge (or risky) advertising signage and I think that’s a great shame, making you look and [...]

Seen global warming in action yet?
I have - my next door neighbour’s flowers are STILL flowering. Last week when I pruned the rose bush back over my front door, it STILL had roses budding and flowering on it! Talk about strange eh? The weather really is acting odd lately. It’s been such a warm autumn [...]