Tunbridge Wells Ukulele Night Thing website

Here’s a website www.twukulele.com, for The Tunbridge Wells Ukulele Night Thing, I’ve built and there’s quite a story behind it. It all started when I bought my toddler son a Ukulele.  The scale of the Uke to the wee lad seemed a perfect match.  Then, by chance, I bumped into Dave Kinder who was organising a Ukulele night in Royal Tunbridge Wells and he invited me along.  Having...

February 10th, 2011 by simon.reeve 

WordPress Commision

I have recently completed a site for a company of Financial Advisors, www.avtrinity.com.  This is the first site I have been commissioned to build for a client who is wishes to maintain the content themselves. This is putting to the test, the idea of using WordPress for such projects and I have to say, it’s working rather well. The company had a rather small static site that was in need of replacement....

February 9th, 2011 by simon.reeve 

Content Management Systems

I have been experimenting and building sites for a few years now, both by hand and have used content management systems (CMS), such as Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke and WordPress.   Lately I have come to the conclusion, unless you really need something very bespoke, then CMS is the way to go. CMSs have matured greatly, such that you are no longer restricted to one template and a few features, instead...

November 9th, 2010 by simon.reeve 

Using WordPress for Websites

Having used WordPress for some time now, mainly toying around with it on this site, I’ve decided to use it to build other sites for other people. Having played with Drupal, Joomla and DotNetNuke, there’s something slicker about WordPress and the supporting community that appeals.  The integration of automatic upgrades for the core and plugins is so impressive and easy.  The community...

July 29th, 2010 by simon.reeve