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Rebuilding responsively

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

I've recently rebuilt a friend's website for her. It's a site I originally built back in 2010, based on the Joomla content management system, which had been recommended by another friend some years earlier. The website worked and did what it needed to, but I never loved it, in part because I wasn't enamoured… Read more »


Tags: website | blog | web | developer | .NET | PHP | WordPress | blogging | work | design | HTML | CSS

 

The infrequent blogger

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

It's been a while since I've blogged and I'm afraid my witterings are set to remain infrequent, at least for the time being. After almost five and a half years of more or less managing two blogs a month, I have allowed my pattern to lapse. I was sad for it to happen, but I knew it must at some point. It's dif… Read more »


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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

The astute among you, and those who read these blogs on my website as opposed to on Facebook, may have noticed that the website itself has changed its appearance. Gone is the narrow grey design; replaced instead by something wider and bluer. It's still based on the same core technology (WordPress) and still h… Read more »


Tags: blog | website | writing | WordPress | CSS | MooTools | JavaScript

 

Three years of inane rambling

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

It's odd to think that at the end of the month, my blog website will be three years old. Something I originally decided to do just to keep myself motivated when it came to writing seems to have lasted far longer than I expected. That basically means I have a website full of three years' worth of inane ramblin… Read more »


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In the blog house

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

As has previously been discussed, coming up with blog topics can at times be somewhat difficult. Sometimes inspiration will jump up and grab you, while other times it remains stubbornly out of reach. It's very rare, therefore, that the blog itself should serve as inspiration, but that's more or less how it ha… Read more »


Tags: blog | blogging | hosting | website

 

Writing about writer's block

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

It comes to something when the topic I've chosen to write about is none other than 'writer's block'. The blogs I've written recently have been increasingly difficult to write due to an apparent shortage of ideas. If I were writing fiction—which I frequently do in my spare time—it wouldn't be an issue. I quite… Read more »


Tags: writing | writer's block | blog | blogging

 

A new look for old times

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

This blog is now just over a year old and as you may have noticed, I've finally got around to re-skinning it to make it visually reflect me a little more. It's actually just a modification of the default theme, but it does the job. It's a little bit darker and the image at the top is more in keeping with my m… Read more »


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For whatever reason...

Posted on by Craig Faulkner

Blogging seems to have become increasingly popular. Perhaps coinciding with the rise of the reality TV genre, it seems there is a growing interest in reading more and more about other people's lives and their views. Blogging has become so popular in fact that it is now used by businesses across the globe to r… Read more »


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