Author Archives: Kimb Jones

About Kimb Jones

I design and develop the web infrastructure at Barnsley Hospital under the leadership of the Corporate directorate.

Advice for the recent WordPress ‘botnet hack’

WordPress was recently targeted by hackers in a hack attempt which was so widespread that even the BBC wrote a very poor article on the subject. There is a lot of advice out there about how to negate or fix … Continue reading

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The subject of day-to-day-job stuff

Yesterday I posted a quick update about the RWD conversion I’m working on for for the main website. In this post there was a titbit which eluded to my ‘day-to-day-job’ stuff – this is the work I do as part … Continue reading

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Responsive Web Design and decorative ‘junk’

Responsive Web Design isn’t just about better serving mobile customers. One thing that I’ve ended up doing as part of the responsive re-work of the hospital site is re-thinking some of the design decisions that were made last year when … Continue reading

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Making our main menu responsive

Here is a quick video of the new responsive version of our main menu: The main thing I wanted to achieve here was that the menu should at no point be hidden from view (displayed as an icon > dropdown). … Continue reading

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Responsive testing/hacking

It may not appear obvious but the hospital website was built with a responsive (fluid) layout in mind. There just wasn’t time to finalise all of the changes and do full testing before launch so a fixed-layout was used at … Continue reading

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