Fridge Magnate 📖 🖼

[15th Sep 2023 12:41] - I love getting away from a display screen full of code and getting to visit Customers in their own habitat. Seeing a Customer's business during a site visit contextualises everything and always serves-up new and fresh ideas for marketing the company.< … Read more

Coming Soon To A Display Screen Near You 📖 🖼

[30th Aug 2023 15:32] - The portfolio website for Web Diffusion's coming along nicely. Here's a quick glimpse of a responsive destktop/laptop screen in HD.

When it comes to a promotional or commercial website, so many people I speak with don't like the thought … Read more

Holt's ShowCards 📖 🔗 🖼

[30th Aug 2023 14:04] - Another batch of Generation Pop ShowCards® boxed and ready to go into service for Phil Holt & Son. These single-sided A5 delivery cards link back to Phil Holt's Web Diffusion website using a tracked QR code. The landing page is the Web Diffusion  … Read more

You Herd It Here First 📖 🔗

[15th Aug 2023 16:36] - The lustre of the social media experiment has long-since faded and there's a hunger to find a suitable replacement. It has, however, been hiding in plain sight for years - it's RSS. Today, news broke that the New Yorker magazine have made the swit … Read more

The Difference Between The Web and Social Media 🖼

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Spanchor 📖 🔗

[8th Aug 2023 08:46] - Now and then, I get sufficiently in the zone and find myself inventing a new word. Today's new word is a portmanteau for a bit of HTML code.

Whiting's word of the day: spanchor ~ noun. An HTML element with a unique id that you're able t … Read more

Working Lunch 🔗 🖼

[2nd Aug 2023 13:26] - Wouldn't it be nice if all business meetings looked like this? Lovely to catch-up with Naomi and Steve at Marquis of Granby.

Greetings.

[21st Jul 2023 13:02] - The correct way to greet a front-end (HTML) web developer is ^Steve.

This Not A Thread 📖

[13th Jul 2023 08:59] - So. This past week there's been some noise made about Threads - something that Meta themselves have dubbed an 'Instagram app' - that purports to offer a platform for social engagement with less toxicity. The twist, seemingly, is that you get t … Read more

My First Website 📖 🖼

[23rd Jun 2023 14:46] - Occasionally, you lose a Customer because they've decided, for whatever reason, to go build their own website. Every time this happens, we wish them well in their endeavours but can't help imagining what that first website they build would feel li … Read more

Feed Me Seymour 📖 🔗

[22nd Jun 2023 15:05] - Have you ever heard me utter one of my go-to phrases in business: "A website is a hungry beast"? Well, I just needed to explain it in an email to a Customer as I just dropped a reference to The Little Shop of Horrors in the same email - 'Fee … Read more

SEO Sorcery Unveiled 📖

[20th Jun 2023 11:00] - Today I asked ChatGPT to write some website copy about SEO in the style of William Shakespeare…

"Verily, behold the splendid realm of search,
Where countless souls traverse the digital sphere.
With eager hearts, they seek what they des … Read more

Death of a Domain Name 📖 🖼

[31st May 2023 09:56] - Last week I emailed Customers to notify them we'll be switching to a new email address. Today, last week's suspicion that our domain.name domain name had become tainted was confirmed.

I logged-into LinkedIn this morning and noted that both  … Read more

Morning Coffee 🖼

[18th May 2023 09:19] - Morning coffee "business" meeting with Naomi at The Marquis of Granby, Harpenden. ☺️☕️

They Own You 🖼

[9th May 2023 14:15] - Just saved a Customer £282.47 a year by pointing-out how Ionos were owning their business and now I'm like:

Word of the Day: Debark

[5th May 2023 13:22] - Debark: verb - to remove elements from a website because you don't like the look of them, without any apparent consideration of their function or the likely impact of their removal.
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Client's QOTD 😂😍

[3rd May 2023 11:14] - Steve - I'm a blagger, not a blogger.

21 Years Ago Today 🖼

[1st May 2023 08:12] - My phone just alerted me with a notification of an anniversary. 21 years ago, today, I formally began working for myself following-on from redundancy from US dotcom printChannel.com.

A Number One Google Rank 📖 🖼

[23rd Apr 2023 09:39] - You'll find me writing about having a hit website because making hit websites is what Sub@omic does!

I thought it might be an idea to share with you what a hit website looks like. Rather than showing you pictures of the website itself, I felt i … Read more

A Considered Response… 🔗 🖼

[19th Apr 2023 09:17] - Upon hearing the gazillionth person, in a work scenario, smugly claim that "they don't do computers".

Nice Weather For Pics 🦆 🖼

[10th Apr 2023 17:50] - Easter Bank Holiday Monday morning was more than a little wet, at Old Batford Mill. Popped out to Tesco down the Lower Luton Road for a sammidge and took a snap of the Mill from one of the potholes in the car park.

Infinite Funkys 📖 🖼

[6th Apr 2023 09:52] - In designing and developing the form protection feature I've named alfaRomeo (aka CAPTCHA), I always knew that there was a very high probability that this dynamic registration code generator would, one day, spell-out a rude and/or offensive word.
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Forgotten Functionality 🔗

[6th Apr 2023 06:45] - That thing where you suddenly remember that, in the last round of embellishment, you'd developed a capability into Web Diffusion that allows you to output any webpage as text (instead of html) in order to view source. #viewSource

NFC Not KFC 🖼

[3rd Apr 2023 08:40] - Got a little tired of the existing desktop so thought it was time to drop a bit of branded wallpaper into view.

As You Approach Launch 📖

[30th Mar 2023 10:25] - A website I'm building at the moment is approaching launch. This particular website has taken an awfully long time to get to this stage. This morning, I wrote, what I hope are, a few words of assurance and support for the website's project manager … Read more