Conceptric

The archives for May 2007

  1. Sorting out my workflow

    As I’m get busier the point has come where I need to get a grip of my workflow. I seem to spend more time working around problems than actually doing any work. The background. I’ve tried using the web server function of my NAS to test PHP and HTML based code and keep the load [...]

  2. Anonymity and the Web

    The anonymous nature of the Web has been one of the main factors in promoting its growth. The perception that you can go anywhere; do and say anything; is enormously attractive to many. I like to think of it as a similar attitude to that people adopt when in their cars. Sadly, this analogy stretches [...]

  3. Where do I start — part 2?

    The commitment has been made and development can begin, but what exactly are we developing? Guess what — more questions. Who’s going to control the website? Projects need a single point of contact to operate efficiently. Decision by committee, whilst the most democratic approach, rarely provides the reliable and rapid response needed during a development [...]

  4. Where do I start?

    Asking a few simple and relatively obvious questions at the beginning of a project can save a lot of wasted time and effort. In web development the first, and most important, question: Do I need a website? It seems a simple question doesn’t it, but it’s not as simple as it first appears. There are [...]

  5. Managing my content

    I’ve just decided to use this blog to manage some of the content for my new business website — cyberstruction.co.uk. Cyberstruction is implemented using the Cocoon framework, but I think I’ve mentioned this before. Cocoon is especially good at aggregating data from different sources and WordPress is designed to provide both easy publishing and RSS [...]