Rumblings from the keyboard of Pete Eveleigh,
a web designer and developer based in Gloucester, UK

Configure ExpressionEngine to use Mandrill Transactional Email Services

Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: General | | No Comments »

Transactional email services are hot news right now and with good reason. Using a Transactional email service means your site or server doesn’t have to do the heavy lifting and you’ve got a place to go when your client says that “email isn’t working”. Here’s a quick guide to setting up your ExpressionEngine web site to use Mandrill – a great, very low cost, transactional email service from the people that do Mailchimp.

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How I think about Responsive Web Design

Posted: October 12th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Web Design | | No Comments »

I have seen talk that Responsive Web Design means you are making a stripped down, “My first website” for use on mobile devices. I disagree and here’s why.

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Searching across multiple categories with ExpressionEngine

Posted: July 29th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: How to, Web Design | | 4 Comments »

I recently put a new ExpressionEngine site live which featured a search facility that returned results based on multiple category selections. To do this without using a third-party add-on such as Super Search I had to create a little work-around. To be honest, I didn’t think much of this as it seemed quite straightforward but a number of people have asked me how I did it so I thought I would share the information here – mainly because I’m likely to forget an need to do it again at some point.

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Why the UK voting system is wrong.

Posted: May 6th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: General, Social Comment | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

If no candidate gets over 50% of the support then how is that democratic?

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Custard Slice birthday cake

Posted: December 17th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Food, General | | No Comments »

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