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Learnings about Social Media Marketing

I’m a web developer by day for a large business. Luckily, they are already very well established and they get lots of visits each day. But starting from scratch with promoting my own website has been very daunting, but also very rewarding.

Thoughts from Generate Conference

The other week I was lucky enough to get a ticket to Generate Conference by .net Magazine. There were some really interesting talks, some technical, others more inspirational.

Building the Orkos House website with Foundation

I was recently asked to update the website for Orkos House. The old website was built with a free website creator and used tables for the page layout. It had some great images and I saw a lot of potential for this site.

Adding Twitter cards to Jekyll

Twitter cards are a great way of making links to your site stand out to other twitter users. They can be used to provide additional information and an image about your page, from within twitter when you expand a tweet. Examples include twitter summary cards that provide a title, description and image, or product cards that can provide information such as price or product category.

Upcoming Book Promotions

Just a quick message to let you know of a couple of promotions on my books on the Amazon UK kindle store.

Thinking about design

I was following a bus the other day and it was so slow. It started me thinking about the design of a bus and how could it be imporved with modern technology. Some of the problems with buses include:

Latest Posts

Hosting a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Hosting a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I thought I’d share some learnings about how to host a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is a minimum configuration to get a basic site up and running.

Creating a links page with Bulma Clean Theme
Creating a links page with Bulma Clean Theme

I’ve seen a few posts recently asking what other authors use for their website. There are many options available, but sometimes you just want a single page with links to your social media profiles and links to your books. This is where Bulma Clean Theme and GitHub pages can come to the rescue.

HTML is beautiful
HTML is beautiful

Building a modern website can sometimes lead you to be so far separated from the end result that is sent to the user. Developers can end up focusing on building sites with component based frontend frameworks, fetching data from APIs and installing hundreds of npm dependencies. We can become more interested in writing great code in their chosen programming language than what we serve to the website visitors. How did we get so far away from writing HTML?

How NOT to make a website

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