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Welcome to webdeveloper.nickjohnston.co.uk, currently undergoing development.

Nick Johnston

Nick Johnston is a self employed computing consultant, working in several facets of the IT industry. With an initial interest in business and computer security, his roles have spread to many other areas.

Nick is currently available for project and contract work - contact Nick for more information.

Locations

Nick works locally within Birmingham, Surrey and London, but also works remotely throughout the country, using a combination of remote working and video conferencing tools.

When required, Nick travels the country to visit clients, to develop business plans and project outlines.

Latest Articles

RSS Feed Promotion

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Covering the basics of RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication), and their use in promoting websites.

Introduction to ASP.NET with VB.NET

Sunday, October 12, 2008

An introduction to how ASP.NET works, how to use it, and what you can do with it, with comparisons for those moving on from Visual Basic .NET.

Dynamic robots.txt generation

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Discussion of how to create a dynamically generated robots.txt file with ASP.NET, to serve additional functionality and save time.

Hiding HyperLink IDs in ASP.NET

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Quick article covering why and how you may wish to hide the sometimes long, revealing IDs created on the HTML side of ASP.NET code.

Web for the iPhone

Monday, September 08, 2008

Quick coverage of Apple Touch icons, and the viewport META tag.

Usage of the Thumbnail_URL META

Monday, September 08, 2008

Using the relatively unspoken thumbnail_url META tag to improve website exposure.

Nesting MasterPages

Saturday, July 19, 2008

In order to provide a more flexible website structure, while maintaining fixed similarities between pages, it is possible to nest ASP.NET MasterPages within each other.

Upgrading Classic ASP to ASP.NET

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Classic ASP is still widely used throughout the web, providing very good functionality. However, with the .NET Framework 3.5, newly added features are certainly a good incentive to upgrade.


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