Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
Latest Posts
More of a reminder for myself next time Image need to do this! Adding a collection tag to a post as a link There are some lovely ways to automate sets of tags with a list page. Hoever I don't think these can have additional content to...
I switched all my small projects over to Fathom Analytics in 2023 for various reasons but there was one page on my site where I kept the Google Analytics code - the 404 page. I did this so that I could pull the data into a Data Studio...
A "Hang on a minute" moment - what are those? Today I ran a crawl on my site using Sitebulb. and I was reviewing a medium issue by delving down into the source code that Sitebulb had collected. There were red dots all over the content -...
I read a couple of articles this week on cleaning up your 11ty config file, the initial one that I found from Robin Hoover and the second from Lene Saile in which Lene had added a 3rd method, adding another config file as a plugin which...
Set up a draft system in 11ty Now this and a few other sites I have are running on 11ty I have been meaning to add a way of marking a post as a draft while I am writing it - just in case I need to publish a short while getting an article...
Recently late one evening when I should have been going to sleep, I had an idea. I spent the next 30 minutes building and launching a website from scratch. OK, it's not a brilliant site but the fact I can spin a site up quickly got me...
I have recently changed the lastmod date in my xml site map to be accurate now that Google are wanting that. Part of what Google wanted was for the page to state the update date on it. I pulled this data from the posts front matter but...
Google's new policy has meant changes to the xml sitemap Google have recently got a little more particular about the last modified date in your xml sitemap following their decision to drop the ability to ping updates to thier endpoint.....
Just deployed a site using the 11ty image plugin and it is working well. I did have some issues with set up - wanted the hi-res images in a separate folder outside of src and public folders and acheived that by setting an external source...
In February 2023 I discovered I had an issue with crawling a site after some changes. I like to fix things to make websites work properly so often go through several itterations of the code fixing things. The same issue cropped up again...
I have knocked up a 3D chassis for the Stanton Coach I am designing. I am on about v 3 of the coach bodywork at the moment and after a lot of thought around the chassis and how to create it including from kraft board, etched parts (which...
I have a couple of 11ty built sites that are auto deployed out to Cloudflare Pages. I normally prefer Netlify for the hosting but I do like to keep some eggs in other baskets. I updated a site yesterday and it kept failing the deploy to...
What is INP? INP means Interaction to Next Paint and will be part of the Core Web Vitals measurements from March 2024. Will INP affect my rankings? Probably not in most cases but it could be the tipping point between your page and...
Is there a viable alternative to Google Analytics? Yes, Fathom Analytics is a more than capable alternative to Google Analytics and is from a small independent team in Canada. Like most people who build websites I have been using Google...
Do we need a neck tag in html? The neck tag doesn't exists in html but if it did I have a use case for it. Dave Smart made a suggestion on Mastodon: <head>, <body> but no <neck>? Where do I put the <meta name="trachea" > tag. Madness. I...