Simon Cox’s website

Hi - this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read and comment on when you have time, images to soak in while you wander about the web and thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea. I also tend to use this as a bit of a testing ground for new web design amd development, content management ideas and SEO testing, so occasionally the site will be in a bit of a flux with redesigns.

Main articles

How I add canonicals into Perch CMS sites

The Canonical link in a page's header lets the search engines know where the original page resides. Originally conceived for situations where articles were duplicated they would reference the original. Google tends to choose the oldest version of a page that it can find (but not the only method it uses) and any other pages with the same or very similar content are considered duplicates and will not do a well on the Search Engine Results Pages - SERPs and we want our pages to do well there for the traffic.

by Simon Cox | 29 Nov 2017

How to solve the Apple mail Unable to verify account name or password issue

Have you been unable to verify account name or password on High Sierra, or changed your keychain password recently and then had issues with Apple mail and other services such as Linkedin, Google, Flickr, Vimeo? I have exactly this and I solved it with a quick fix that will save you a lot of time.

by Simon Cox | 05 Oct 2017

Using a CDN to help migrate your sites hosting

Moving a site to new hosting can be fraught with issues. Here is one technique that I find useful when moving to a website to a new hosting server.

by Simon Cox | 18 Sep 2016

Shorticles

Caulking a website article

03 Jan 2014

I wrote a little something for 12 devs -day 7

Thoughts on IE browser upgrades

11 Nov 2013

Quick post about IE browser upgrades.

Password security

10 Nov 2013

England Argentina

10 Nov 2013

Uploading images outside of Perch CMS default resource directory

11 May 2012

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

Responsive Web Design break points

16 Jan 2012

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