After reading about the silktide sitescore tool on Nitallica’s blog, I put this site to the test. It fares pretty well, getting the maximum score for accessibility and design, and scoring a respectable 8.5 out of 10 overall.

What brings the score down is my lack of visitor votes (hint, hint). If you would like to [...]

I am very pleased to announce the launch of my brand new site!

If you are a returning visitor, you will notice that everything around here is brand new. A while ago, I decided that my site needed a complete overhaul, and in my spare time have been working on this new version for the last [...]

If you are using Opera, you might notice that the banner of this site is a bit broken. I have no idea why this is, I can’t spot anything obviously wrong with the XHTML or the CSS, and it works correctly in Internet Explorer (5 and 6 on Windows, 5 on Mac OS), all the [...]

I do all the design and testing of my site on my own computer (using OS X built in Apache server), before uploading new content to my Dreamhost server space. After adding the WordPress installation, I was hoping I could connect to the same Dreamhost MySQL database from my local test version, so that I [...]

If you are a returning visitor to my site, you may notice the brand new look. I am now using a WordPress blog installation for this front page, which will make it much easier for me to add news about new projects and images, and enable regular visitors to leave comments and feedback.

This is the [...]

On my old news page, I used a script I wrote myself to create the posts. Each post was stored in an XML file, generated by a CGI script, which I then uploaded to my server. These individual files were used to build the news page. It was quite a nice system, easy to use [...]

If you like my artwork and would like to help spread the word, I’ve added a new page of badges and HTML snippets that you can use on your website. If you do add a link, let me know. I’m happy to consider a reciprocal link, subject to my review of your site content (SEOs [...]

I am an inveterate fiddler, and have shuffled the content round on this site again. I’ve replaced the old home page with what used to be the news page, to make sure visitors know about new images and projects straight away. The old news page still exists, but I’ve removed the main link, and the [...]

I’ve just finished a new style sheet for this site, designed to match my new stationery and business cards. If you have visited the site in the last 30 days and can’t see any change (there should be a yellow banner at the top of the page), click the default link in the styles menu [...]