I have been building a site using the fabulous Perch CMS but discovered that the default upload path for images is inside the perch directory which caused my a bit of concern. Most Perch based sites I have looked at have been happy to use this but to be extra safe I like to change the name of the Perch directory...

I spent some of the weekend tidying up my photos in Aperture. I had realised that the the actual files are kept in Projects when you pull them into Aperture and I had a whole range of topics organised into folders with the projects inside them. THe problem with this is that some projects were based on individual...

A trip on a steam pulled train from London to the coast. An early start to catch the train I got up up with the sparrows at 5am on Saturday 15th October 2011, mainly because Paula had to do her hair properly as we had planned to dress in a 50’s style to look the part on this special trip. Paula had purchased a...

Just read a great article at 40horse.com on creating a custom ExpressionEngine2 Login Screen so decided to have a quick update to my own login screen. It is slightly frivolous as only I will ever see it hopefully but every little bit helps. I edited the login.css found inside the main themes folder /default/css...

Steve Jobs was many things to many people. To me he was one of a handful of people who have had a profound effect on my life. My thoughts and reflections on the influence of Steve Jobs on me. I woke this morning to the sad news that Steve Jobs had died last night. Naturally I learnt the news on an iPhone using...

The first UK ExpressionEngine conference I first considered going to the EEUK11 conference when it came up in a discussion at one of our LondonEErs meetup sessions. I had seen a few tweets about the possibility of a UK conference following the superb EECI event in Leiden in 2010 run by Robert Eerhart but I honestly...

Installing Pixel & Tonics new Assets add-on This week Pixel & Tonic have released Assets., a new file management add-on for ExpressionEngine. This is an area of content management that has been lacking in the past but has been improving with EE2 — but Assets takes file management to a new level. The extension...

At the Shakey Super Pull We had a great day, between rain showers, watching the very loud, very fast, very powerful and very smokey tractors competing in the BTPA points event — recommended fun day out for next year. During one of the breaks, I found a line of vintage tractors on display to the side of the beer tent...

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 doesn’t — if your on a small screen and you have to zoom or scroll horizontally then...

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 about the best modelling for narrow gauge railways there is — it is not your...

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 Slashdot (not mine - not yet anyway) and that could be the reason why IT teams...

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 the mid to late 1990’s to the evolving web, whilst very exciting did make me...