About

Simian Enterprises is the trading name of Gary Stanton, a freelance web developer working in sunny Brighton, UK.

This is actually the best photo I could find

I discovered the internet in 1996, (which was back before good websites were actually invented), and I've been coding pretty much every day since then.

Over a decade later and creating websites is still my favourite thing in the world. I love that the web industry is so fast moving, new ideas and techniques are created every single day. I never stop learning new things, and that's a great position to be in.

I specialse in developing bespoke applications, built to automate the day to day tasks of my clients' businesses. Over the past few years, I have also become passionate about web standards, and all that this entails.

I love all aspects of the web, but I'm particularly fond of Coldfusion, CSS, POSH & jQuery - probably in that order.

When I'm not making websites, I run a t-shirt company creating designs based on old skool retro video games: RetroGT.com - On Sundays I run a market stall in Brick Lane.

About

Simian Enterprises is the trading name of Gary Stanton, a freelance web developer working by the sea in Brighton, UK. Gary's been creating websites since 1996 and still loves it. Read more

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@botheredpocket Actually yes, that would explain it....

@fymd Nice... well, expect bugger all work to be done for the next few days! And get Full Throttle too... loadsafun. ;)

@fymd Yeah? On what? You running DosBOX or a SCUMM emulator, or just running it native on Windows?

Latest Blog Posts

Tutorial: Setting up a production Windows 2008 server with IIS7 & Railo

A complete beginner's step by step guide to setting up a production Windows 2008 server, running the awesome Railo on multiple sites.

Mercurial tool to export changed files

Combatting misinformation in web design

I received an email from a client recently, informing me that they have hired someone to redevelop their entire website in php, as they have been informed by their SEO company that ColdFusion is 'bad for search engines'.

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Think Vitamin » Recurring Billing For Web Apps
Good article comparing recurring billing apps. Useful for anyone building a web app.

Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
Supurb article on font stacks in modern web design. Excellent research done here.

jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web
Impressive set of oft-used jQuery effects with a very small filesize.

Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen - Smashing Magazine
Some great advice in here for improving your excecution of ideas.

50 Free Professional Fonts For Logo and Graphic Design | Acuity Designs
Nice to see a collection of professional, well designed fonts that are available for free. Some really nice work here.

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