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Web design and web development

123Reg’s MX records with your own custom nameservers

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I recently had to set emails up for a client through 123Reg and had no luck finding 123Reg’s MX records if you wanted to use your own, custom nameservers. For consistency across our hosting clients, I wanted to point the … Continue reading

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Review of jQuery for Designers Beginner’s Guide book by Natalie MacLees

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jQuery has become – rightly or wrongly – the defacto JavaScript library for web designers and developers these days, so I jumped at a chance to review the jQuery for Designers Beginner’s Guide book by Natalie MacLees. The book is … Continue reading

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Is Newcastle upon Tyne in Scotland?

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Is Newcastle upon Tyne in Scotland? Is Durham in Scotland? A lot of tourists and southerners seem to ask these as the train pulls through the station. And now the answer is available in one easy to read website: isnewcastleupontyneinscotland.co.uk.

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Inkscape article in .net magazine issue 231

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I’ve been fortunate enough to have an article (and, more importantly, my photo) published in the current .net magazine, issue 231. Entitled Escaping Photoshop, it’s a call to action for web designers to look beyond Photoshop and broaden the range … Continue reading

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July 2012: MediaWiki, Magento and fresh concrete

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We are somehow the majority of the way through July, and have already broken that mental promise I made to myself to update this site more often. I’ve been working on a few Magento projects recently (portfolio pieces to come, … Continue reading

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