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Category Archives: Costa Blanca
Website design and spicy curries
The recession is continuing to have an impact on work and business on the Costa Blanca. For my latest design work, I am being paid in curries! (After the initial payments for Web hosting and domain name registration, of course. … Continue reading
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Website designer still at work
Given the credit crunch and the competition, website designers are fighting for new work. So it’s always nice when you get some, and for such deserving clients. I have just finished a Web site for a medical clinic in Albir, … Continue reading
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A shameful website in expatriate Spain
One of the main reasons why I started this blog is that I was appalled by the standard of Web site design in expatriate Spain. Of course, most of them were property sites and rental sites, cashing in on a … Continue reading
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German men on the Costa Blanca
I’ve been to Germany more than once. I found the people there charming and friendly, from lorry drivers and waitresses to teachers and business people. Even here on the Costa Blanca German women are often a delight. So why do … Continue reading
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The rain in Spain (revisited)
When I wrote a whimsical piece on this topic on the 26th of August I had no idea that, in October, rains would bring devastation to the Costa Blanca—or the part of it where I live. Storms and floods destroyed … Continue reading
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Font embedding and the Mozilla project
A last few words about fonts, before I move on to images. Just yesterday, a new client wrote to me about my first design for their property development site: “The letters of the text are a little thin, could you … Continue reading
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The rain in Spain
In 2001, when I first came to live in my present house in Calpe, the hill across the valley to the east was a sandy brown. A desert hill, which made you wonder what had ever been grown on its … Continue reading
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Forms that don’t work
It gets worse. I thought yesterday’s post might be of some interest to the people who publish the Bulletin. I checked their Web site, and could find no e-mail address—in 2007, no e-mail address?—just a contact form. I’ve included it … Continue reading
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Unfinished Web sites
One of the things I do every now and then is check out the Web sites listed in Costa Blanca publications. Some of you may have come across the free booklet called the Bulletin, which comes out once a year, … Continue reading
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Empty houses
When I first came to Spain, in the summer of 1967, I used to play football with some Spanish lads on the deserted beaches of Gandia and Dénia. Over the years, I saw things change (you wouldn’t find either beach … Continue reading
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