Dev diary

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

This was one of the bits of the site re-design that I wasn’t looking forward to particularly. My species list is something that not many people look at, and probably even fewer have any interest in, but it’s something I … Read more

I’ve moved all of the blog posts from my old wildlife art site into this site. I haven’t begun work on the e-commerce side of things yet on this site, but eventually, it will be possible to buy prints and … Read more

This website was started 10 years ago, give or take. It started off as a small hard-coded gallery and grew into something more and more unmanageable. Eventually I decided to re-code it, connecting it to a database so that I … Read more