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What is Web Development?

September 18, 2010 Articles

When I meet people for the first time, they often ask what I do. When I say I’m a web developer, they nod knowingly, but actually I’m sure that many of them have no idea what I’m on about, except that they really, really, don’t want me to explain it to them then and there. [...]

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Development work on Pixdaus.com

October 29, 2009 Portfolio

Pixdaus is a very popular nature photo sharing website, with tens of thousands of daily visitors. We were asked to implement a new design when the site was acquired by Environmental Graffiti. This involved reorganising and cleaning up the code as well as replacing HTML and CSS components. “Alfred has an extensive technical knowledge, which [...]

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Page titles for SEO in Drupal and WordPress

November 23, 2008 Articles

This article was originally published exclusively for subscribers to our free weekly newsletter. Contents What are page titles and why are they important? Page titles in WordPress Page titles in Drupal

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A Simple Source Viewer to help with SEO

November 9, 2008 Technology Blog

I’ve been involved for a while in teaching the basics of SEO to local business people here in North Devon. Recently, while revising my course notes I decided that to help my trainees get a better grasp of on-site SEO it would be useful to be able to show them the HTML source of pages, [...]

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Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

August 27, 2007 Portfolio

The brief for the web site of this popular North Devon tourist attraction was to create an attractive modern site with a clear organisational structure which would be maintainable by L&B staff. Given the large amount of content with varying needs for its presentation and management Drupal was the obvious choice. I created a custom [...]

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Metro International

June 17, 2007 Portfolio

I was asked by unit9.com to help develop the backend administration for Metro International’s new website. This involved radical customisation of the Drupal content management system so Metro staff could easily maintain the content of this beautifully designed site with its many complex page structures. It doesn’t look like a Drupal site, does it? “Working [...]

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PhysioDirect

April 10, 2007 Portfolio

Bitweavers asked me to turn their complex graphical web design for the PhysioDirect site into working HTML and CSS with the requirement that the design should not break when text was enlarged and that it should be compatible with a wide range of browsers. “… a brilliant job.” — Mike Bridges, Bitweavers.

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The Great Torrington Cavaliers

March 17, 2007 Portfolio

The Great Torrington Cavaliers are an energetic local fundraising organization. They had an existing website but they were struggling to cope with the changes required whenever they ran a new event. They also wanted a site which would act as a centre for the exchange of information amongst their membership. I chose to use Drupal [...]

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Tailor Made South Africa Travel

March 16, 2007 Portfolio

Helen Palmer of Tailor Made South Africa Travel wanted to get control over her website, which was based on an unsatisfactory custom-made PHP application. She already had a WordPress blog so I suggested using WordPress for the entire site. This would mean she could update her pages whenever she liked, which would be a major [...]

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drinkmilk

October 15, 2006 Portfolio

drinkmilk was set up by Simon Williams, aka Crayola, as a home for his graphic design / record label / music distribution business. I was asked by Simon to tighten up the site’s design. Our brief was to ensure his graphical ideas were given a setting that was consistent and user-friendly. Accordingly, I converted his [...]

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