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Spam, eggs and chips

Without the eggs or chips. Rubbish. MT Blacklist is just not working well for me. I came in this morning to over 800 comments on the system, true Blacklist caught about 700 of these but still the hit on the server can’t be good.

Life with EE is looking good so far, although I haven’t delved too much into it yet. I discovered some problems with posting comments behind our firewall in work, which is a bit odd.

There’s going to be a new look here at markboulton.co.uk, probably in the new year, once I get EE up and running. It’s going to be a lighter, fresher design and with ditching MT i’m able to go XHTML Strict with the code. It also looks like i’ll be saving about 20% in page weight as well with the new design. The portfolio section has been reworked which such make it a bit more usable. It’s also taking advantage of EE’s excellent category management system with category specific pages now, which are lacking at the moment.

I’ll be posting more about EE as I go along.

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Excellent stuff. I’ll be watching very closely. I’ve had a few spammers using EE, but nothing vast thus far. It has excellent anti-spam tools if things get really bad, and the IP/user/agent banning direct from referral stats is superb.

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Colly
Mon 13th Dec 2004
at 10:09 am

I can’t quite believe the speed at which I’m developing the site using EE - it’s fantastic. With MT I had to hack around with a plugin here, a bit of custom php there, but with EE, it’s all out of the box - very impressive.

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Mark
Mon 13th Dec 2004
at 11:10 am

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A picture of Mark BoultonI'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.