Mike Irving's Blog
A Blog from Mike Irving, Software Developer
Welcome to my Web and Mobile Developer Blog. Here you will find the latest News and Rants about mobile apps, websites and the internet.
I also, occasionally, write blog posts on non-techie stuff too!
To begin, simply select an article from the list below.
Alternatively, choose a Blog Page to view a list of previous blogs.
15/6/2009 -
Using a Content Management System (CMS) can help make your website much easier to manage and update, especially for those not adept in web design and development.
CMS offerings, in general, make th...
29/3/2009 -
I was recently contacted about performing SEO on a shopping website, written in ASP.
The owner of the site had been told that as the site was written in ASP, with a SQL Server database, that it was...
3/3/2009 -
I have this week done some Search Engine Optimisation work for The Doghouse Studio - A residential recording studio based in Henley On Thames, England.
I was asked earlier this year to look after t...
31/1/2009 -
Recently I have been working on a new shopping website, written in C# and SQL Server, that was to replace on old website that had been written in Perl, with a MySQL database.
The new website bears ...
20/12/2008 -
This week I have been working on a new website project, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for the first time.
If you are coming to Studio 2008 from Studio 2005, everything seems similar, and you s...
25/11/2008 -
I had an interesting problem to solve the other week when looking over a website page that had been translated to Russian, and was delivered from a machine hosted in Russia.
The translation was fin...
19/10/2008 -
This week I have delivered a completely redesigned website for Andy Till.
Andy is a Personal Friend, Professional Bass Player, and star of the new 2008 Hovis Adverts!
The old site had been onlin...
15/10/2008 -
I seem to have been increasingly using the Lightbox Photo Viewer on websites in recent times.
Lightbox is a light-weight, and cross-platform, solution for opening up full-size images within the cur...
14/9/2008 -
The recent launch of both Firefox 3 and Google's browser Chrome, will have caused headache's for many website developers.
Different web browsers will render websites slightly differently to one ano...
5/8/2008 -
Captcha / Image Verification is a great way to combat website form spam, such as bot-generated enquiries that ultimately end up in your inbox.
You can see an example of a Captcha / ASP Image Verifi...
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