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I’ve just finished my new portfolio website, I’ve gone for a clear & simple design. I’ll probably slowly move all work related stuff over to the new website & keep this one as my personal blog. Check out my new site here & let me know what you think:

Moulin Créatif web design & development

Why have I decided on a new domain rather then reworking this site? There’s a couple of simple reasons:

• I’m going to start working more in France – Believe it or not, even though I live in France & speak French fluently I’ve only worked with say 2-3 French clients. I’ve chosen a French name (easier to remember for French clients) & made the site available in both languages.
• I like fresh starts, there’s nothing like a blank canvas for creativity and I feel this site has become a bit too messy lately being a blog, addon shop & work base. A fresh start will also give me a chance to see what I can do with my rankings on a new domain. I’m no expert in seo so hopefully I’ll have a chance to learn some new techniques.

What do you think? I’ve kept it simple using only a few jQuery effects (jQuery is wicked!). Let me know what you think & if you notice any errors

Since the update to 3.0 my iPhone has decided it doesn’t want to work properly anymore… Quite a few other people are having problems with the update too by the look of things

Continue reading ‘iPhone 3.0 – the battery killer’

Just a quick post to say I’m now getting old 22 years old today and so far it’s not going well my laptop has just died on me! Looks like I’ll be looking for a new one soon…

I’ve now been hosted with JaguarPC for just over a year, what can I say? I should have moved here years ago! I currently have 2 VPS with them and I can’t say I remember ever having the slightest problem with them. No noticeable downtime (uptime monitored with mon.itor.us), no hardware issues, nothing.

When I did use their support tickets (because I had some questions about Plesk as it was the first time I use it) they replied quick! As in from what I saw in my support tickets each reply was within 10-30 minutes.

Also because I checked out their forum first I found the special deals they have regularly. I think when I signed up I managed to get double the RAM +5GB disk space and free plesk control panel, how cool is that?

So if you’re looking for a new host be it VPS, Dedicated or reseller hosting then be sure to check these guys out! They also have a nice twist on the “unlimited” shared plan so many hosts rip you off on by not actually offering unlimited anything (which would be impossible anyway). If you need lots of disk space then they offer endless disk space! How does that work? Every time you get to 80% of your allowed disk space just click a button to extend it!

Anyway it’s time I got back to work, just thought I’d share my experience over the past year. Hopefully you’ll be able to receive the great service I’ve had since being with them.

I’ve been happily using Linux now for over a year and thought I’d post about my experiences so far and after the what happened to me (more on that in a bit) I’ll probably be creating a new category to store useful bits as I find them (for myself & hopefully it will  be helpful to others). Continue reading ‘Life in Linux’

Beta testing for the latest & greatest PHPmotion has recently started, limited to a select few forum members & the moderators. Hopefully this means that the public release isn’t far away. So all of you who have been patiently waiting (and impatiently for some…), your wait is nearly over!

Personally I haven’t been able to look through v3 yet from lack of spare time. I did start installing it until I found out my cgi-bin wasn’t correctly configured and I had to get back to work, so it’ll have to wait a few days (hopefully not too long because I want to have a good look round). But I did get a quick look through the admin and it’s a huge improvement as you could probably tell from the screenshots on the forum.

Anyway, once I’m finished installing it I’ll be able to let you know what I think & don’t worry I’ve already come up with a few ideas for addons which will help make your site even cooler (but I’m not saying what just yet )!