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The old cottages Originally my extended layout design had two old single story cottages at the back between the shop and the boat builders.

Google Search Console sends out automated emails for issues including the 'Page with redirect' as an issue.

GSC was flagging some Canonical issue on this site so I decided to add the canonical using the page.url parameter in my base.njk nunjucks include.

I don't have a games console but really wanted to play Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out and Google Released it on Stadia so I go the package.

I realised that the sitemap.xml file was listing the 404 page - we really don't want that in there as the search engines don't want it.

I have tried to add Webmentions to the site having read Max Böck's post on this and then Chris Bongers post - both very helpful and bewildering at the same time!

No issues with coding the pages up as and when I need but if I am on the go somewhere making changes to the site will have to wait - except that I have now installed the Netlify CMS!

Many many years ago I owned a Spectrum +3 computer.

This website has been rebuilt many times since it was first put together in 1995 and it will probably go through more iterations in the future.

Minifying css for 11ty sites is quick and simple.

There are many 11ty resources available but the one that I started with to get me going is Kevin Powell's Turn static HTML/CSS into a blog with CMS using the JAMStack and I keep going back to it!

A recent Mastodon post and blog post about writing less from Matt Gemmell made me think about the old short posts this site used to have.

Steps to verify your website on your Mastodon profile Winters coming (Nothern hemisphere) and it's time to migrate.

Time to sit back and do some model making Lockdown in 2020 had been an odd year.

Chrome now natively lazy loads images and I explore how to do this with Cloudflare's Workers Some time ago Cloudflare announced that they were making Workers available.

SEO experiments that no-one really cares about but they do increase the probability of other tests being useful.

I wanted to see if I could use Google Data Studio (formally Google Looker Studio) to report on site migrations from http to https The four different variants of your website — http, https, www and non www — are seen as different websites by Google.

I built a new rail-bus in the style of Reinier Hendriksen I was inspired to build a copy of one of Reinier Hendriksen’s rail-buses from his original article of April 1999 edition of the 009 news, after I read the archived material from the 500th edition.

The most vigorous software for quality content and SEO Safecont was an online SEO tool from Data elasticity S.L in Spain, that analyses your website content and highlights where you should consider improving the content.

Embrace the security push With the announcement that Google will be highlighting all non-secure sites., https, from July 2018 website owners need to think about how their sites are being delivered to the public.

Canonicals can trip up your sites SEO Originally conceived for situations where articles were duplicated they would reference the original.

Have you been unable to verify account name or password, or changed your keychain password and had issues with Apple mail and services such as Linkedin, Google, Flickr, Vimeo?

without having that DNS propagation wait As part of an upgrade to a site we wanted to add a blog to provide news and updates.

French meter gauge goods shed I was invited to display one of my layouts as part of the celebrations at the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway in France. a few years ago.

Body work for the SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM In my first post about this new 009 kit of the Deutz.

SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM Part of the premise for Stuart’s kits is that he will only do small runs.

Work in progress gets out the house Recently I realised that it was five years ago that I had built the baseboard framework after Richard Glover gave me the plans for Whitesands Quay.

Replacing the chimney pots on the row of cottages Having built the row of cottages kit from Scalescenes I had added small pieces of styrene tube as chimney pots with the intention of painting them terra cotta.

Hand-built track and point controls The track work on Whitesands Quay consists of four points providing a runaround and two sidings.

The Neil Sayer Models La Meuse 009 kit This is a special kit as it was presented to me, as a surprise, by the registrar when Paula and I got married.

Using a Scalescenes card kit Originally I had intended to construct the buildings for Whitesands Quay. using Pendon. methods but I really don’t have the hundreds of hours required to find, measure, photograph, draw, emboss, watercolour and construct suita…

A new small raised bed in the garden to provide fresh produce.

Most UK organisations have ignored the EU directive on cookies The EU Cookie Consent law has been making a lot of waves in the web industry since it was first announced.

I have been building a site using the fabulous Perch CMS but discovered that the default upload path for images is inside the perch directory which caused my a bit of concern.

I spent some of the weekend tidying up my photos in Aperture.

A trip on a steam pulled train from London to the coast.

Just read a great article at 40horse.com on creating a custom ExpressionEngine2 Login Screen so decided to have a quick update to my own login screen.

Steve Jobs was many things to many people.

The first UK ExpressionEngine conference I first considered going to the EEUK11 conference when it came up in a discussion at one of our LondonEErs meetup sessions.

Installing Pixel & Tonics new Assets add-on This week Pixel & Tonic have released Assets., a new file management add-on for ExpressionEngine.

At the Shakey Super Pull We had a great day, between rain showers, watching the very loud, very fast, very powerful and very smokey tractors competing in the BTPA points event — recommended fun day out for next year.

This site now uses responsive web design - go on, resize you browser!

I decided to enter a model making competition I had not done any model making since I was a teenager and had not been to a model railway exhibition for a very long time.

There really is no reason to prevent links into your website other than to appease Compliance and Legal teams who are covering all options.

Whats going on at the moment Typography has long fascinated me — I’m not a great practitioner but am a lover of the art and to me typography is one of the foundations of great visual communicative design.

May the 4th be with you The 4th day of May is traditionally Star Wars day where all Star Wars fans celebrate this ground breaking series of films.

Online testing tool that checks out how your website measures up I have been evangelising web standards for quite a few years now and tools that help you test your work are very appreciated and make the tasks a lot easier.

The best angle to staple paper is 67.5 degrees.

Sunday circular walk by the Thames We have been looking forward to getting back into doing Sundays walks after Christmas and today we completed our first one of the year.

New year heralds new design and some long overdue focus back on this website I have now updated simoncox.com and have moved the site to EE which I have been using since 2006 for other sites but had kept using the MT content management system for this webs…