This is a bit of a technical article for me (I’m no server wizard), so please excuse any misunderstandings/misuse of terminology on my part. I’ve finally got my VPS hosting working with nginx and WordPress, which, looking at various articles online, can be tricky in a lot of cases. The main reason for doing this of course is …more
Development
New website for ‘The Dire Straits Experience’
tallhatDesign was approached to create a new website for ‘The Dire Straits Experience’ – a band containing several original members of Dire Straits and recreating the sound and live experience of this hugely popular group. A key aim was to make use of tour photography to get across the energy and scale of the live …more
Beware of 123-reg and their auto-renewal tactics
Many years ago I registered 3 domains for a client with 123-reg.co.uk. About 18 months ago the client ceased to exist and the domains because surplus to requirement. I believe I then set the domains to ‘expire’ via the 123-reg control panel because otherwise I knew they would be auto-renewed and I’d be charged.
Fast forward to today (15 November). I received an email saying 123 had renewed the domains and had taken the money…
Twitter feeds suddenly empty?
Or showing something like ‘No public twitter messages’? It’s probably because Twitter have recently changed the method used for third party sites and plugins to display tweets inline and your site code is using the old method which has now been discontinued. The solution is to…
Elastislide and WordPress
Elastislide is a useful jQuery plugin which allows the easy setup of horizontal carousels of images that are responsive and touch-enabled (swipe-able). However, I came across a problem when trying to install Elastislide in a WordPress deployment for a ‘logo parade’. Nothing would show up. After a bit of hair-pulling I figured that it was …more
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