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The Parrot place is an online pet shop, offering pet supplies, fish food, and specialising in supplies for birds. It is WordPress-driven, and uses the E-commerce…

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Marble Head Galley is a restaurant in Marblehead, Ohio, USA. Urban Legend web was contracted to provide a calendar application which let the site owners enter…

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FGI Worldwatch

This site carries financial news, including market data, from the US, and around the world. Urban Legend web was contracted to update server-side PHP code, and…

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Recent Work

Some recent contract work just completed, via Immersion Media, a California company; Value Investing Congress ; I updated the jQuery behind the…

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ElisaCachero.com

This portfolio site is for multi-disciplinary designer Elisa Cachero, and shows her design work in textiles, art direction, print & web design, and event planning. It uses…

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Te Awa | The Great New Zealand River Ride

This site is te-awa.org.nz, The Great New Zealand River Ride, an outdoors project based on New Zealand's largest rvier, the  Waikato. Urban Legend web was contracted…

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Tweaking WordPress permalinks – Redirection

A client recently asked me to change a permalink ( the link to a single post from its title ) on his site, to test the…

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The Designers Library

This site, The Designers Library, is for a soft-furnishings ( curtains , blinds etc ) company in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is designed by CubeMedia, and…

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The Palette Picker

I've been snuffling around in my archives, dusting off long-forgotten back-up CDs and such, and found an interesting  wee toy I'd almost forgotten writing. It's a…

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WordPress 301

I've spent some time recently exploring the new features in Wordpress 3.0.1, and learning about very useful child themes and theme frameworks. For now the only…

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NZ Business for Sale

This site aims to help sell a Christchurch, New Zealand B & B. It is designed and coded with an eye to search engine positioning, and the…

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North Art

Northart provides an accessible and community focussed programme of exhibitions by local and national artists, and an associated programme of public events and arts…

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