Minervation.com WordPress migration

As part of the general move to WordPress at Minervation, we re-developed the Minervation site in WordPress. Almost all of this work was done without me, except for the task of integrating Mienrvation’s .Net based LIDA tool into the website. …


GMC Learning disabilities website

In 2011 Minervation, was tasked to design and create the markup for the new GMC (General Medical Council) Learning disabilities website. The actual design was done by Design by Day and implemented using Minervation’s Phaedrus content managements system as a …


Healthyliving award

The healthyliving award rewards caterers in Scotland for dishing up healthier food and helping their customers make better food choices. Minervation redesigned this website and developed a members area to enable award holders to get online access to information specific …


Ubuntu useful hints

In this post I will be maintaing a list of useful hints for future reference. Mouse speed I find the default mouse speed much too fast. And even after reducing both speed and acceleration to a minimum it is still …


Using Google to install Ubuntu on a separate hard disk without touching Windows 7

As we develop more and more WordPress sites at Minervation, Linux is becoming an operating system I can no longer ignore. Sure WordPress runs just fine on Windows however most of the information written about WordPress pertains to Linux and …


NSUHR

This was a straigtforward WordPress website for NSUHR: An international Network to Support Understanding of Health Research. As with many of our recent, smaller, WordPress my input was limited to technical assistance during setup and launch. Launch date: January 2012 …


Site Speed

A couple of years ago Google introduced Site Speed to it’s search algorithm.  This is a measure of how long it takes a page to load. You can track this measure for your site in Google Analytics as well in …


Maggie’s CancerLinks

Maggie’s has taken over the management of this valueable resource. The site has come a long from it’s initial launch as the Oxford Cancer Information website. It continues to provide high quality and up-to-date links on Cancer information both locally …


Future Friendly Manifesto

A little while back a number of well known web developers, designers and authors launched the futurefriend.ly website. The gist of the site is to propose an approach to developing web sites and web application in a future friendly way. …


IDEAL Collaboration

A straightforward WordPress website aiming to “improve research quality in surgery, radiotherapy, physiotherapy and other areas of complex intervention”.  To be honest I didn’t have much involvement in this one, other than configuring the webserver to host the site. Launch …