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Jessops PLC goes into administration
Jessop PLC the high street retailer that started in the 1930s in the city I live in, is no more. Friday 11th January 2013 @ 4:30 was the official d...
MicroData Loving
So I spent the afternoon, refactoring the variable names in my sites code (exciting stuff) and also adding some micro-format information to various pa...
50000 Manual Downloads
Its taken a couple of years, but the site has reached the milestone of 50000 free pdf camera manual downloads. In recent months we've seen a number ...
Server Replacement
Its been quite a long time since I made any sort of site adjustments, however this weekend I have: Moved the code and database to a private VPS ...
25,000th Manual Download
On the 26th of July 2011, we reached another milestone of 25,000 freely downloaded camera manuals. 5000 of those manuals where downloaded in the last ...
20,000 Manual Downloads
On the 16th of April 2011, we reached a milestone of 20,000 free manual downloads. Not bad for a site with no funding and currently less then 500 manu...
New Comment Styling
So I've been a little disappointed with the quantity of new interesting comments (since the site refresh) and have partly attributed this to old forma...
Speed Improvements
Another couple of weeks has passed and you probably haven't seen any obvious changes to the site (even if only 1 person were paying attention, Ashley)...
Minor Improvements
Its been 1 day since the site went live, but I'm not happy yet (nor will I ever be). So today the site has received several minor improvements. Some y...
Live!
Its taken many many months, but I have finally re-released the site! Its Object Orientated, its Web 2.0 and hopefully its going to become bigger and b...
Database Class
The sites development is marching ever closer to completion, but before that happened I decided to create a Database class. In this instance the cl...
Modal Windows...
The new site features just keep flowing. I have made an executive decision to remove all inline user forms and place them into a modal windows. ...
Welcome breadcrumbs...
Another minor improvement today; a breadcrumb, woo! Might tweak it visually, but as a simple class I'm pretty chuffed with it! It makes use of an expl...
Continued site redevelopment
The site continues to develop, but alas in dev mod... so no one else will know or care :). However, we now have the following functionality: The ab...
Rebuilding the site blog...
Today i've been working on the blog, previously it would have been impossible for a user to see a single blog entry. But alas, no more! New Feature...