Dev diary

When I decided to re-write this site, the actual appearance of it took a bit of a back seat while I worked out the functionality. Colours, fonts, backgrounds, gradients, etc…

I’ve made some changes to the species list to make it more responsive to smaller devices. I think the standard view of the list is ok as it is really….

I actually enjoy building websites, especially when they present challenges and problems to solve along the way. Once the building is done though, other less enjoyable tasks need doing… making…

I’ve added a previous/next post link to the bottom of every news item. It shows the previous and next news post that was posted in that category only. For example,…

Optimisation of this site has been a big task. It always feels like you’ve finished once a site is built and functioning correctly, but as with any software development, proper…

Moving from Windows to Linux brought with it a whole heap of benefits as far as this site’s performance and stability is concerned. It also brought with it the need…

The site continues to perform really well on the new server. If anything, it’s surprised me with just how well it’s performing. There have been no errors due to lack…

I’ve made the site live on the new server. It’s possible some people are still being routed to the old server and are receiving an IIS page on the old…

I’m writing this from a new server – a different one to the public website. I have set up a duplicate of the whole website on with a new host…

My original site was written almost entirely in ASP. There are some large remnants of that in this new site, namely the species list and the entire gallery code. As…

Last night I made the decision to make use of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to alleviate stress on my site’s server. My server is based in Silicon Valley, San…

I’m still in the process of optimising the site as much as possible in order to minimise resource usage on the server and make page delivery as fast as I…