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  • 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

    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

    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

    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…