Don’t worry, I haven’t lost it. I have temporarily removed the stylesheet from the site in honour of the 1st annual Naked Day on April 5th. The point of the exercise is to promote Web Standards, and in particular the use of clean, semantic HTML markup in documents, so they don’t appear a garbled mess […]

As I start to think about a redesign for this site, the first and most obvious question is: what is it for? I always intended to produce a site advertising my services as a performer, arranger, conductor and teacher, but up to now the only element of jamestopp.com has been this blog, and its purpose […]

Today I launched two new sites. The first is my web design business site at jtwebstudio.co.uk. The second is the site for my folks’ B&B and studio gallery in Orkney - book early to avoid disappointment! Both sites done nicely in XHTML and CSS with no tables for layout.
There is more stuff on the way […]

Sounds riveting doesn’t it?
I did this a while ago on my laptop, and it was a major headache. When I came to do it again on my desktop (laptop is in the laptop hospital having an AC socket replacement) it was no less of one. The problem is that most of the web-available tutorials are […]

I should really learn to read things properly. Two pages on in my PHP book was the section on session variables. One of which is the basis for this new, improved, go-faster version of my hit counter. Rather than rely on a number in a flat file, this method actually works by detecting the presence […]

Here, for what it’s worth, is my attempt at a very simple hit counter for a PHP-based web site. It’s similar to the day when I first brought a horn home from school and played it, much to the delight of my family - “Yes, very nice dear. Why don’t you take it outside?” In […]

Since I don’t currently have the readies to be flying to Australia for conferences (or even cycling to Brighton for conferences), I’ve been doing the next best thing by listening to podcast recordings of some of the presentations from the Web Essentials ‘05 event which happened recently in Sydney.
The fact that I’m able to […]

Yet another means of distraction has presented itself to me. It’s called Google Earth and will no doubt become the next big thing on the net, until the next big thing after that comes along.
If you haven’t discovered this yet, basically it’s like a virtual globe, which uses keyhole satellite pictures of varying magnification to […]

Ok it’s now definitely finished. Two acknowledgements must here be made:
Firstly Andy who helped me out with a CSS problem which was totally spooning up my pages in IE/Win.
Secondly, Bruce Lawson’s personal site has a couple of very useful articles on WordPress and accessibility, many suggestions from which I have incorporated into my design. […]

Here, after a couple of hours’ wrestling with a recalcitrant FTP client, is my new-look, renamed, WordPress-powered, complete-with-go-faster stripes blog. You may have noticed the URL has changed (you were automatically redirected here). This is in preparation for the launch of the rest of my personal site at a later date, so I would suggest […]