The English Guy Web Design

I think when you are programming, coding, or whatever computer activity you’d like to call it when you create code, it is best to assume that you don’t know everything. For example, you might have been using this construction…

background-position: top left;

… for years and it has never caused any problems in your websites. But some [...]

For work I have been asked to look for a small portable handheld computer (PDA preferably) that will allow the managers to write down notes on various subjects such as ordering, pricing, customers and so on, that will allow those notes to be transmitted between them and saved in a central server location when docked.
Now [...]

About a month or so back we received an email at work inviting us to a blogging seminar. It was entitled ‘Blogging for Business’. It was today. At least there was a breakfast, and some coffee.
Although I’ve ‘only’ been blogging for nearly two years now, I have to say that even amongst professionals there are [...]

I don’t think it is something that anyone will come across quite often, but it has happened to me on several occasions because of the shopping cart I use.
That shopping cart, designed for use as a client-side cart in conjunction with Paypal is designed with one form/one item per page. That’s all well and good, [...]

A word to the wise: if you are planning on using WordPress (which is of course, the best blogging platform available), you should make sure that your host allows you a fairly sizable database. After having several problems with not being able to post on Balanced News Blog, Mel and I realised that the problem [...]

Over the past few years I’ve seen, and worked with, one or two shopping carts. But to be fair, I found one I really liked using and have used it ever since. This shopping cart is based on JavaScript and has a lot going for it, mainly the client-side nature of it, and the fact [...]

I think it’s something to do with the human condition. We always tend to remember our parents as they were when we were young. When I think of my father, I always think of the robust mid-40’s man, and the same for my mother, as a 40-year old, when I was 7 or 8.
I say [...]

It surprised me that local companies here in Lincolnshire are quite well informed about the basic Internet. But although that is the case, they either have no up-to-date website, or lack any kind of e-commerce aspects to that site.
Having said this, based on conversations with several local people, and my own experiences here at GRS [...]

Sorry I haven’t been writing as frequently lately, I have been working quite a lot on bits and pieces and you know how things are. At work, I have finished off another section of the online ordering, now you can order Fire Exit signs online through GRS. Interesting work, I have finally got my act [...]

If you have a site, or multiple sites, you’ve probbaly heard of and/or used Google Adsense. As you see from the image/button to the right you can configure AdSense for referrals too. What a lot of people don’t know about AdSense though, is that you can use it for free advertising for your own sites.
What [...]