Matthew East

Another post about Dreamhost webhosting. Further to my post inviting people to join up, it looks like a fair few people have done so, so I’m confident that a few new or existing Dreamhosters are reading along here.
A cool feature they have is the ability to submit suggestions for new features (Click Home->Suggestions in your [...]

For the last 6 months or so, this website and all of my email have been hosted with Dreamhost. I have to say that I’ve been very impressed with their service – the hosting prices are low, the performance (including uptime) is good, and the customer service is prompt, efficient, friendly and helpful. Also, every [...]

I’ve recently managed to find the time to work on the theme for my website and photo gallery. The website theme is adapted from the MistyLook wordpress theme, as I wrote about earlier. I’ve now succeeded in removing the header from that theme, which took a few more tweaks than it looks.
Now I have written [...]

In my continuing search for a pleasant theme for my website, I think I’ve finally found the right one… MistyLook by Sadish Bala, thank you Sadish! It’s amazing how many great web designs are out there and can be freely used and modified. I’ve just finished some minor tweaks to customise it for my needs. [...]

I have some webhosting with Dreamhost, and I use it for my email and this website, as well as a number of other minor things. My mail client filters spam pretty well, but when I’m using the webmail interface supplied, I always have to flick through loads of spam emails in order to find the [...]

In the spirit of moving more and more of my website to userfriendly interfaces, I’ve installed gallery on my webserver, and have imported some of my photos. It’s another great piece of open source software, it’s easy to install, easy to use and looks really good. I still need to organise the photos a bit [...]

Like Keybuk, I too have been feeling the need for blogging software which allows me to post directly online.
So I’ve moved my blog from pyblosxom to Wordpress. While I was at it, I thought that I might as well move my whole website to Wordpress, because, let’s be honest, there was not much there aside [...]