Generation X Digital: New Media Strategies for Digital Revolutionaries
I have recently been spending some time looking at ways of improving page load time for WordPress websites. This has the twin benefits of improving user experience whilst at the same time improving Google ranking. In this article I will look at some practical ways in which I am seeking to improve the page...
I am currently developing a WordPress website for a Equine Breakdown company. The site features an eCommerce shop powered by WooCommerce. This enables customers to purchase breakdown cover online, and pay using payPal or by Direct Debit. When launched the site will run on a Virtual Private Server, but in the meantime I am...
During my annual sojourn to Andalucía I sat up late one evening making a preliminary list of things that I have left undone or would like to do, and places I would like to visit. I was surprised on reading it to discover how many of them involve going for very long walks, or...
I’m blogging about my journey in setting up a new startup affiliate marketing portal. You can read about the history of this project here. The site concept is to provide a portal enabling parents and prospective parents to compare maternity and baby products and accessories.
...Back in September 2009 I conceived an idea for a side project and Mummywear Maternity was born. We were having dinner with friends and discussing possible ideas for a web project. Perhaps because they had 5 children, and at the time we had 2, the conversation shifted to child-centric websites and I mooted the...
Better late than never, I resolve...
1. Smoking. Best to tackle this one first. I resolve only to smoke Camel cigarettes. Where I live in rural Shropshire this is tantamount to giving up anyway, while leaving the door open to smoke in more exotic climes.It is all too easy to spend all of one’s life working to meet deadlines and catch up with outstanding work. I’ve just read about a neat idea to allow time to develop those personal projects which are easily often neglected in the day-to-day grind of paying the mortgage and school fees: “At Trigger.io,...
I’m increasingly attracted to the idea of using WordPress as a platform for developing websites which need content management capabilities, but without the degree of complexity that calls for a Joomla imlementation. I love Joomla, and have been using it since Joomla 1.0, but a number of factors have lately forced me to reconsider...
Wherever possible I have always chosen to develop bespoke designs for my websites, be they static marketing sites or developed using content management systems. When discussing the design for a new project with a client I tend to suggest looking at a representative sample of sites (usually, but not necessarily) within their industry in...
“Responsive Web Design essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to adapt the layout to the environment that it is being viewed in.”1 At Generation X it has always been a first principle to consider the wide variety of user platforms when designing websites. Cross browser compatibility and varied browser resolutions have always...