Myself and a friend had discussed doing a forum on our favourite game, Football Manager, for a while. We set one up with phpBB, but agreed that all the big successful rivals had either IPB or VB. Essentially, professional software which they had paid for.

I argued that phpBB can be skinned to not look as much like phpBB, but he said it would be worth it. We decided on VB, as it was slightly cheaper and my small experience using it here. So, we went halfs on a year leased license (deciding...

Jack Franklin

June the 10th. I suddenly thought that I wanted to interview people. I looked on the web, and there is no one place to find all the interviews.

So I decided to give it a go, interviewing the top people in the web industry to try and help readers be more successful. I got a domain, www.grilling-gurus.com and hosting, and found a theme I liked. I added some plugins, and then finally this evening posted up the site.

I've also emailed about 10 different people, with 2 certain...

Jack Franklin

9 down, 5 to go! I wish they could all end right now. Did you know from Primary -> College the average kid sits over 100 exams?

Anyone else doing their GCSEs?

Jack Franklin

I've always never really been one for Web2.0 applications - but in the last week curiousity got the better of me as I joined Flickr. I must upload more pictures and try and get a feed going with my blog. Anyway, today I was on another forum reading about Twitter. Now, this is something I have never, ever, ever understood. Posting little messages about what you are doing? *yawn*. But actually, I can't stop posting! There's something addictive and I cannot seem to stop. I find myself styling my Twitter...

Jack Franklin

On February 20th, I ordered 2 books from Sitepoint, 'The PHP Anthology' and 'Simple Javascript'. I ordered quick delivery, and they were due by March 3rd. When they didn't arrive, I emailed them, and to be fair, they were great. They refunded my extra payment for quick delivery, and promised to reship if they did not arrive by the 10th.

They finally arrived! I'm really looking forward to getting some more advanced PHP stuff done and finally learning Javascript! Which I've been planning...

Jack Franklin