About the Author

Me

W(e)blinks is the personal website of the guy shown in the photo on the left, Richard Adams. I completed a 4 year course at The University of York to receive a MEng in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2007. Building websites is one of my main hobbies and is something I really enjoy. I've been building websites in some form or another since 1999

About the Site

W(e)blinks Logo.

W(e)blinks acts as a portfolio of my work and a place for me to test out new ideas and designs. I also use it as a place to post up links I've found entertaining, as a place for me to write about all the little tips and tricks I've picked up and as a place to put all of my photos. The site also acts as an advertisement of my skills, so if you're looking for someone to help build a website, then feel free to contact me.

About the Construction

A snippet of the W(e)blinks code.

The site has been built entirely using a text editor (Orginally JEdit, now vi). It is written to XHTML1.1 And CSS2 standards and uses PHP with a MySQL database. Most of the images you see on the site were made using Adobe Photoshop CS2. The banner images are all from photos taken by myself on holiday. This site uses icons from the Sweetie free icon set by Joseph North.

About the Hosting

Part of the Dreamhost Logo, (c) Dreamhost

This site is currently hosted with Dreamhost. Dreamhost are an amazing web hosting company and have some excellent (and more importantly, cheap) hosting packages available. I highly recommend them to everyone. If you signup with the promo code "WBLINKSPROMO", you'll get $50 off all packages, plus you'll be giving me some extra money towards my hosting. Everybody wins!

About the XML Feeds

Snippet of the raw XML code for an RSS feed.

Most of the content on W(e)blinks is available via RSS feeds. Not sure what RSS is? Read the wikipedia entry. Here is a list of the RSS feeds available on this site.