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Articles list

Main articles and short articles available on Simoncox.com. Whilst I make every effort to ensure that my writings are accurate please do not hesitate to pick me up on something you think is wrong or disagree with!

Main articles

Swanage Belle

I recently booked a trip on the Swanage Belle, a steam hauled special from London down to Swanage on the Dorset Coast.

I never met Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was many things to many people. To me he was one of a handful of people who have had a profound effect on my life.

by Simon Cox | 2011 Oct 06

EEUK11 report

The UK's first ExpressionEngine conference has taken place in Manchester in August 2011. I provide a report on the event itself and the surrounding activities.

Assets for ExpressionEngine

Assets is a new file management add-on for ExpressionEngine and brings a new way of managing assets in your website. I installed it and built a simple image Gallery.

by Simon Cox | 2011 Jul 03

Vintage tractors

On the 11th June we attended the Shakey Super Pull run by the Midlands Tractor Pulling Club at the Shakespeare Country Raceway.

Responsive web design

Responsive web design has been emerging as a way forward over the past two years. Simon Collison's personal website was one of the first to head off down this route and is a great demonstration of what can be achieved with an adaptive design - well worth a visit. Following on from that lead I have now implemented a Responsive Web Design on this, my personal website.

by Simon Cox | 2011 May 31

Loxley Barton Falls - part 1 - inspiration

In 2004 I went to the Expo Narrow Gauge (ExpoNG) model rail exhibition for the first time and that single visit inspired me to pick up an old hobby that I thought I would never go back to.

by Simon Cox | 2011 Feb 25

WebFonts

With HTML5 finally emerging from the primordial soup I thought it was time to have a look at where we have got to with fonts on the web, what today's techniques are and what is new in the world of the digital hot metal.

Star Wars day

Luuuuuke, Luuuuuke, wake up it's the 4th of May - Star Wars Day...

Nibbler

Online testing suites are a very useful way of checking your website to see if it's up to scratch. I take you through Nibbler from Silktide.

The perfect angle to staple paper

On July 2nd 2004 I posted a small article about stapling sheets of paper together. We all have these small thoughts but don't usually say them out loud - this time I did.

by Simon Cox | 2010 Feb 04

Medmenham walk

We completed a short country walk around Medmenham in Buckinghamshire including a stretch along the banks of the Thames river.

New look for 2010

I have finally taken the plunge and updated the site and have switched over to ExpressionEngine.

White Sands Quay progress

Ongoing development of my third layout.

by Simon Cox | 2009 Dec 09

Short articles

Uploading images outside of Perch CMS default resource directory

Moving images outside of Perch default folder - how I did it...

Responsive Web Design break points

RWD Breakpoints are the topic of discussion at the moment - my thoughts.

CSS first-child and IE

Did you know you can use first-child in IE 8 and below?

Aperture tidy up

Quick post: I spent some of the weekend tidying up my photos in Aperture.

ExpressionEngine custom log-in page

Just created my own customised EE login screen.

EEUK11 tweets from

EEUK11 twitter feed

EEcms tip - transfering site to a new server

Moved your EEcms website and getting issues with your database connection?

Card handling fee?

Why on earth am I paying an additional card handling fee for my cinema ticket?

EEcms tip - looping urls

#eecms rewritten URLs keep looping? That will be mod_security rules then that will.

End July image roll

Some snaps I took over the last few days

Content strategies of pages with no content

How much content is actually on link farm sites?

ExpressionEngine Assets - changing images

Quick tip if you need to change images in assets

When Google+ gets on ifthisthenthat

Updating all my social media interaction points from one place

Big take away from Insites Tour Brighton

Big take away for me from the Insites Tour, Brighton - blog more.

Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte - excellent read.

Actimel - excellent example of bad marketing practice

Actimel Winter Days Out competition - excellent example of bad marketing practice - @actimel

8 Faces Magazine

Looking forward to my copy of 8 Faces magazine issue 2!

Preventing deep linking

Why would anyone want to prevent incoming links? Lots of sites terms and conditions don't allow it!