Changes Ahoy!

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I've just started concepts and scribblings for redesigning this website. I no longer feel that it's serving my best interests in terms of generating contacts, and I think that it's because the site is too cluttered.
I'm planning to widen the site design (less than 1% of my visitors are still using 800×600 resolution) to allow [...]

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Fixed navigation!

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Well, my main navigation is all up and running again. Seems I omitted a necessary question mark from my redirect rules. I don’t remember having changed the .htaccess recently, but perhaps my server or ExpressionEngine just got a little more picky about their rules… Or just maybe I accidentally uploaded an old version when I [...]

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Screwy navigation!

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Ok, so any recent visitors to my site will have noticed that my navigation links just don't work. I kind of know the reason why, but I'm having trouble fixing it right now, which is more than a little frustrating seeing as I've been applying for a new job this past month — a broken site's [...]

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March/April Roundup

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I guess more fool me for starting a new blog right before going on holiday! A few days after my last post, I left Cardiff and hitchhiked for charity (Link Community Development) down through France and Spain to Morocco, where I spent a week on top of the eight days it took to get there. [...]

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Fast-loading CSS rollover menu items

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I’ve just been going through a few design sites this evening, and it’s surprising how many nice looking sites have such slow-loading navigation images. What I mean is, you see the menu fine, but when you hover over a link you have to wait a second or two for the rollover state to download and [...]

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