Adrian has developed many websites over the years – mainly for the companies he has founded or co-founded – using HTML, ColdFusion or PHP middleware and databases including Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Some of these old sites, dating back to 1995, take a bit of effort to get going on modern webservers, and he does not have full archival copies of everything he has ever produced.
A selection of the many sites that Adrian has developed is shown below. Several have a particularly strong geographical focus.
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Business Geographics – 1995
The URL geoweb.co.uk was originally used for the Business Geographics Limited (BGL) website. Adrian learnt to design websites in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) in the early 1990s, not long after its creation and release by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989/1990. This website started life any time around 1993. Bathe in the early to…
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UK General Election – 1997
The URL election.co.uk was used for Business Geographics’ coverage of the UK General Election in 1997. Built by a core team of just a handful of people our coverage of events, angled substantially towards an explicitly geographical perspective, garnered millions of hits. The website featured: Adrian wrote about the design of the website for the…
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Business Geographics – 1999
The URL geoweb.co.uk was still in use for the Business Geographics Limited (BGL) website in 1999 but the appearance of the site, and amount of content, had evolved considerably from earlier versions. Still largely written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) the website now featured many more images as well as various database-driven elements, using…
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UK General Election – 2001
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First Virtual
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LeadHat
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ExactMedia
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GoCarbonFree
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HerdManager
Not the prettiest of sites, and more of a ‘what might have been’ than anything else, HerdManager was partially developed as a demonstration of the sort of data management that is possible with a ColdFusion-based site, a database and a whole lot of Structured Query Language (SQL) statements. The functionality to add new records to…
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HomeHunter
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Ascog Farm
Adrian’s family own Ascog Farm on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. The farm is one of very few that is not owned by the Mount Stuart Trust, the ‘Bute Estate’ which describes itself as ‘the custodian of 87% of the Isle of Bute.’ At Ascog Farm, a particularly windy spot close to the Eastern coast…
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MegaSorcery
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Tyres
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Allt Beag
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Nutbourne Place
Adrian is fortunate to live at Nutbourne Place, a fine country house in West Sussex with a great pub, The Rising Sun, down the road. The Annexe at Nutbourne Place is available for holiday rentals through Airbnb. To highlight useful links to walks, attractions and a history of the house for visitors Adrian put the…
