Category Archives: Development

Advice for the recent WordPress ‘botnet hack’

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Kimb Jones

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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Making our main menu responsive

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Kimb Jones

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

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Kimb Jones

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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Your INTRANET is bad and you should FEEL bad

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Kimb Jones

Truth is your Intranet is bad. But so are everyone else’s right? Yes, yes they are. And especially in NHS organisations. Take ours for example: It’s an in-house cobbled together classic-ASP mess that has been hacked up and re-worked so … Continue reading →

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WordPress admin modifications/simplifications

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Kimb Jones

This is a screenshot showing an update I’ve just rolled out to our main site which simplifies the WordPress dashboard admin menu for our content editors. The mission here was to make the ever-confusing WordPress menu simpler to navigate for … Continue reading →

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