E commerce is the buzzword for selling on line. This can be as simple as a simple facility for taking credit card orders on one or two products, or a fully fledged booking system, on line catalogue etc. Mr Kirkland has developed a wide range of bespoke and pre packaged E commerce solutions. In conjunction […]
Content Management Systems
CMSs allow a client to update and edit their website without any technical knowledge. Mr Kirkland finds these are very popular among clients, as they provide a simple and cost effective way of keeping their sites up to date Simple Solutions A CMS may just be a simple form for uploading new pictures to a […]
W3C Standards Compliance
Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the Internet) and others, the W3C develops standards and guidelines for the web and it’s future growth. Among these are standards for how web pages should be coded (HTML & CSS). Mr Kirkland advises all clients of the importance of adhering to these guidelines, and specialises […]
User Orientated Design
The Internet is slowly maturing and yet many sites have not learned what Mr Kirkland has known for many years – Effective Web Design puts the User first. While flashy impressive over designed websites may please the owner of the website, one must not forget why the website is on the Internet, if your visitors […]
About
Web Design and Development Mr Kirkland is a web design company with offices in England and Japan. We are a team of professional designers, animators and programmers directed by Chris Kirkland. Since the late 90’s, we have provided web design solutions for clients based locally, nationally and internationally. Contact Us %%wpcontactform%% Phone/Mail UK +44 (0)808 […]
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Converting squid log to apache format when Using Squid as an http accelerator
Introduction This article is really an extention to setting up squid as a reverse proxy, and is about my method for blending the squid log into my apache log. I must point out, that my method is rather crude and I think a better solution than my shell scripts exists, but I couldn’t find it. […]
Bash, for loops and filenames with spaces
For loops delimit the items on whitespace, so a filename like: filename with spaces.txt Will create three separate items, which in this case is not ideal: filename with spaces.txt Solution use a while loop e.g. for a file ‘list.txt’ with a list of filenames: while read filename; do ;done < list.txt
PHP Cache Control script
Caching For those unfamiliar with cacheing: Web caching is the temporary storage of web objects (such as HTML documents) for later retrieval. There are three significant advantages to web caching: reduced bandwidth consumption (fewer requests and responses that need to go over the network), reduced server load (fewer requests for a server to handle), and […]
Where’s the Monkey
Where’s does the monkey hide does it hide behind you face Or perhaps it waiting for you in your minty tube of paste Where does the mokey live when you’re sound asleep at night Is it shouting in your ear to check that it’s alright And where does the monkey play When you sad lost […]