Ben Locke

Since the last entry, I finally managed to get ASP code running again on the Windows server and as a result, managed to get the (still in progress) site back to where it was. That didn’t solve the gallery issue … Read more

Today has been a busy day, but nothing has been achieved. My old website was hosted on a Windows server. It had to be, because about 99% of it was written almost entirely in ASP, with the other 1% being … Read more

Transferring such a large amount of data from the old site to this one has been a really big task, and I’ve automated as much of it as possible. One thing that I haven’t managed to successfully automate is the … Read more

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL is … Read more

The new site is getting more and more complex, and consequently, more and more slow. At the moment it’s definitely running more slowly than the original site for a variety of reasons. In a bid to counter this, I have … Read more

The shop is effectively done. A few awkward steps along the way, such as catering for products that are out of stock, one-off products such as the original drawings, and some cosmetic bugs, but everything seems to be running smoothly … Read more

I’m in the early stages of setting up the shop. This is still the easy bit. The hard bit is still going to be working out how to integrate the yet to be built galleries into the shop. The easy … Read more

The contact form on the previous website used a server-side ‘captcha’ system whereby a script would produce an image composed of random alphanumeric characters, a user would replicate them in a field on the form, and another script would then … Read more

All other articles from the previous website are now working on the new site. This includes the ‘On the trail of…‘ series and my own ramblings about various bits and pieces. The next task is going to be moving some … Read more

All of the trip reports from the old website have now been moved to the new database. In the process I took the time to do some proof-reading and was surprised by the amount of typos and punctuation errors that … Read more

Although I’ve got far bigger tasks to do to get this website totally redesigned and moved entirely to the new server, I’ve been carrying out some more tweaks to the species list. The design is now just a little bit … Read more