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.
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This site now uses responsive web design - go on, resize you browser! Until you look at a website on several different platforms you may have no idea that it is using responsive webdesign. However you will know pretty quickly if it...
I decided to enter a model making competition I had not done any model making since I was a teenager and had not been to a model railway exhibition for a very long time. ExpoNG was fantastic and was a real eye-opener. The exhibition is...
There really is no reason to prevent links into your website other than to appease Compliance and Legal teams who are covering all options. Some sites have gone down due to high traffic loads when they have been listed on Boing Boing or...
Whats going on at the moment Typography has long fascinated me — I’m not a great practitioner but am a lover of the art and to me typography is one of the foundations of great visual communicative design. So my move away from print in...
May the 4th be with you The 4th day of May is traditionally Star Wars day where all Star Wars fans celebrate this ground breaking series of films. Not George Lucas though — he missed a golden marketing opportunity by missing the 4th of...
Online testing tool that checks out how your website measures up I have been evangelising web standards for quite a few years now and tools that help you test your work are very appreciated and make the tasks a lot easier. For pure code...
The best angle to staple paper is 67.5 degrees. This angle keeps pages easy to flip, reduces desk interference, and prevents strain on the paper when reading through a multi-page document. Why Does the Stapling Angle Matter? The angle at...
Sunday circular walk by the Thames We have been looking forward to getting back into doing Sundays walks after Christmas and today we completed our first one of the year. It was a circular walk starting and ending at the Dog and Badger...
New year heralds new design and some long overdue focus back on this website I have now updated simoncox.com and have moved the site to EE which I have been using since 2006 for other sites but had kept using the MT content management...
The baseboard structure is now mainly complete I took a few days off to concentrate on moving the White Sands Quay project forward. This is a 4mm scale 9mm gauge railway based in Cornwall and originally from a plan by the late Reinier...
I have had one of Nigel Lawton's Bachmann re-motoring kits for a long time now and one of my engines packed up recently so I set about my first bit of modelling for the first time in a few months. Why does everybody say that the winter...
Loxley Barton Falls will be at Brighton Model World Exhibition this year. I have just had the invite paperwork through as a late invite (something about loosing my details!). I see that there are four other 009 layouts at the show which...
Magazine cover with Withywindle Mill as the main image. Update This is of course a spoof. There were quite a few enquiries about where to get the magazine - so many that I did think about creating it for real!
My pizza layout, Withywindle Mill, has won the competition it was built for - the GDNGRS Pizza layout competition! It was a late decision to have a competition at this years ExpoNG so we kept it to members only. On the day there were...
I was asked last year to exhibit Loxley Barton Falls at the 2007 Norbury & South London Transport Club's exhibition on the 10th and 11th November. I was put in a small alcove next to the gents (quite handy) but this wasn't far off the...