fordie’s Blog

I just update this site to WordPress 2.1 (Ella). The entire process took under ten minutes and so far, eveything seems to be working as it should! This is the first WP update I’ve bothered with and I’m not sure how many of the new features I’ll use (I already have a spell checker in [...]

It was never my intention to use an existing wordpress theme for this blog. My original plan was to build a theme myself, however a combination of time pressure & a creative mental block meant that I ended up with a theme that I’d downloaded (albeit slightly modified). My biggest stumbling block was that all [...]

My blog posts are like buses, you get none for ages then three come along at once. I’ve just launched a new website all about me: markford.me.uk The new site will not replace this one, I’ll still continue to blog here; markford.me.uk is more for people who want to know about my background and maybe [...]

It’s not like me to post anything political, but I’ll make an exception for this. In the UK the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) covers access to services for disabled people; the part of the act that covers websites came into force in 1999. The act states that “reasonable adjustments” to ensure that their service is [...]

I just got this email from those lovely folks at vivabit: The @media 2007 web site has just been launched, and you can now register to attend: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/europe/ Taking place on June 7th and 8th, this year the bar will be raised and web design and development best practices will be pushed that one step [...]

Time has just flown by over the past few weeks; Erin is now over a month old and is doing really well. Generally she is only up for one feed during the night, however that can take anything up to two hours which has taken some getting used too. She still seems to be putting [...]