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A happy announcement
I’m officially going on maternity leave on the 1st April. Although it may seem like an April Fools’ Day prank, I can assure you it’s not and I am now getting ready for the arrival of my little one who is due in the middle of April. It’s a very exciting time for me and…
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GovSite – a flexible WordPress theme developed by dxw
We’ve found that for many of our products, we’re asked to implement very similar features again and again. We also find that many of these clients have pretty limited budgets, which makes it difficult to follow the service design manual process. User research is often the first thing that gets cut, which isn’t ideal. So,…
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Talking snakes and mongooses at #bigwp
Last night I gave a talk on plugin security at the Big Media & Enterprise WordPress London Meetup. It includes Indiana Jones (Why did it have to be snakes?!) and a cheeky plug for MongooseWP – our plugin security alerting service which will be launching soon. The talk seemed to go down well – at least…
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Moving on
At the end of March I’ll be moving on from dxw. When I was hired by dxw three years ago, I was the fifth staff member. My original job description was to focus on user experience and front-end web development, but as the company grew, my role evolved with it. Since then dxw has grown…
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Introducing Alex
Hi I’m Alex, and I’m the new designer/front-end developer. I’m really happy to be part of dxw and I’m looking forward to working on design and front-end projects with the team and our clients. I designed and built my first website in 1999 – it was rubbish. But I stuck at it and consumed as…
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An update on an impromptu campaign: two weeks on
Just before Christmas, I read the Digital Services Framework tender documents, and I reeled in horror. I was pretty sceptical about the first iteration, and I explained those concerns, privately, to quite a few people. But in those conversations, everyone agreed the framework hadn’t come out very well. So I had hope that it would…
