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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…

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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 front-page slider to…

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Te Awa
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…

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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…

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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…

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Hello !

You’re reading this, which means that Urban Legend web has re-launched its site. This occasionally-updated page will feature; tips and tricks for non-specialist website content…

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