Posted in 2005


To All My Clients and All with Interest in What I do. Thank you!

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

I am writing to tell you that I will be away from work on a day to day basis from Monday 6th June 2005 for the unforeseeable future thereafter as due to personal reasons.

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Online Computers, Hardware & Peripherals Shop Website

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

I’ve created the first version of CHP Online. This is a website that allows online sales of computers, hardware and peripherals.

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Bridal Website Design

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

It seems to be the season for weddings and bridal wear… I’ve created a website to organise and present wedding dresses and shoes for The Bridal Place, a bridal shop in Walsall.

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Playing God! Who has the right to do this?

Friday, May 6th, 2005

I have been having a few problems with a website that I developed and for the life of me I couldn’t see what the problem was… until now!

The website in question is TheInterPost.net and the problem was that the site wasn’t displaying what ts was coded to display for some internet users.

I have whittled the problem down to Norton Internet Security or at least one of Norton’s Internet Security programs. I can’t be specific because I don’t use it on a day to day basis.

When you have the Norton program installed and you visit an internet page, it inserts a bit of code in the web page before it is displayed to you. The objective of this (i can only propose) is to help secure your internet experience by not allowing any page to show “pop up” items.

Now… when I say items, I’m being quite general because so are Norton. I have found that if some “suspicious” code contains one or more words that Norton’s software thinks might be a reference to a pop-up advert, it interferes with the code and, in my case, it actually stripped out not just the “suspicious” word but also the code around it.

So I say… “Who do Norton think they are?”

Scenario 1: Just because drugs are generally known to be bad, is it anyone’s right to arrest, interrogate and judge you as suspicious or guilty anytime you mention the word “drug”?

Scenario 2: When you talk on the telephone, who has the right to filter the words that you say and replace or remove them?

Please judge this matter yourself.

I have created a work-around and you can now use TheInterPost.net without Norton Internet Security getting in the way. However, with the nature of this issue, I’m sure it affects thousands, if not millions of sites. Webmasters beware!!!

I have found that the problem definitely occurs with Norton Internet Security 2004 and with research I have found that many other people throughout the world have had this problem and in some instances Norton Internet Security 2003 is also mentioned as being problematic.

If you want a good pop-up, spy ware or internet browsing solution then please contact me.

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Plus Size & Standard Bridal Products Website

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

A site for girls looking for 16+ and plus size wedding dresses, shoes and lingerie.

This client is one of my favourite ones in terms of how keen they are.

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Don’t Sales Want to Sell !?!?

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

They have been on to their delivery service supplier, InterLink Express, requesting the latest prices for the website and after a week of getting ‘Yes, someone will email them to you later today’ and “Your account manager will supply the prices to you”, the client still has nothing.

OK, my client might not be the biggest company around and they may not ever hold the largest account with the delivery company, but this is no way to act.

I advised my client to tell InterLink Express that the delay is stopping them from developing this site and that they should go to another company.

If a company acts like this in a pre-sales/sales scenario, then what on earth are they going to be like after you have paid them!

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Building Plots & Country Property Website

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

I have created a visually simple site for Building Plot Investments (the company) which presents their investment offerings.

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