Surf’s Up!

Surf’s Up!

Coming very soon! I have been working on a new web store for Surf’s Up! Shop – beautiful eco friendly sea glass and silver jewellery and gifts. The store should be open very soon, you can visit it here: surfsupshop.co.uk Be sure to have a look 🙂

Home Again

Home Again

After a brief and forgettable skirmish with TSOHost, I’ve moved my UncleSimon website back to one.com, where all my other websites reside. I’d looked at TSOHost as a (slightly) cheaper alternative, but not really worth the effort; didn’t like the ‘managed’ WordPress, awful front end, and worst of all, security ‘incidents’. So, I’m back. For…

Site Back Up and Running

Site Back Up and Running

This site was unavailable yesterday after receiving an email from the hosting company (TSO Host) that there had been a serious data breach and advised me change all passwords associated with the installation. Following their instructions, all went well until I changed the database password. I knew that I would have to make some further…

Things You Need To Consider

Things You Need To Consider

Websites consist of three things: an address (Domain Name), somewhere to keep it where it can be accessed (Host) and some content to display. Domain Name Every website needs a domain name… or address – mine is unclesimon.uk. Obviously, it has to be unique. Most Hosts (see below) can sell you the domain name when…