Dan Rooke’s Blog

I have been so busy over the last few weeks, it’s been mad! And it’s all down to the new website.The site has taken up so much time recently trying to get all the content on there and we are still a way off completion. It is coming together slowly and the new site is now our primary site with the old site only taking a few orders.

I have been responsible for the optimisation of our weekly e-shot last week. I have discovered the wonders of XHTML and intend to use this for all current and future projects. The optimisation went well with a 10% reduction in size of the email and much tidier code! I have also done made alterations to the design and layout to improve appearance and reduce bounces due to the mail being classed as spam. I feel I have learnt a reasonable amount about email marketing.

I hope to be starting my price comparison project in ernest sometime this week. I shall be using PHP and PEAR with a Micorsoft SQL Server backend. This should prove an interesting project allowing me to gain more knowledge of file and data manipulation as well as dabbling with XML. I was perhaps thinking of using something similar to this as my final year project.

Phew that was a long one!

After some extensive downtime and generally bad service from ImagineNetworks, I have signed up with Site5.com.
I have a reseller account which has greater flexibility and features and higher priority support.

I am very pleased with the service and speed so far. I am in the process of transferring my domain name to the new host.