Sorry to anyone who has tried posting a comment and it failed.

The new design has taken a few months to complete due to work and social commitments, but I have finally got something to show for the 7 versions I have binned and many hours tearing my hair out.

Security has been tightened on the server also, my Hosting company have done a lot of hard work bringing all bugs to a close and getting their servers up to top notch standards. Well done to them. I highly recommend using them for all your hosting needs.

Internet Explorers will notice that this site does not work in thier browser, also they wont be able to see this post. This design took a lot of time to create and IE just decided it would destroy all my hard work by being a crap browser and instead of sticking to standards, it has its own.

Making this site work in IE is extremely low on my priority list. I have no intention of hacking my own code so that IE will display it correctly. All of the png graphics would have to be redesigned as gif files so they show in IE, but I would lose quality and I will not do that.

During the course of this design I put together some new code using AJAX – Learning this has been simple enough in parts and I intend to keep it up and add a few more interactive elements to the website over time.

I am currently off work for a weeks holiday and helping a friend out by looking after his shop for him so he can take his wife and kids abroad. Generally I would like my holidays to myself but I owed my friend a favour so I agreed to do it. To be frank, I really don’t think he trusts anyone enough to run the shop except me. This cannot happen every year though.

The shop sells mobile phone accessories and second hand/new phones, unlocking, dealing with repairs and spares as well. Before I started doing what I am doing now I used to be the technician that repaired the phones and looked after the IT side of things. Unlocking software is unique and requires a lot of attention to keep them all running, seeing as my friend is no Bill Gates and likes to download and install anything and everything, it gets harder each time I visit to fix the problems he has. So far this week I have rebuilt 2 pc’s and one laptop.

I am looking forward to going back to work. A week off is nice, and even though I have spent it in the shop I cannot wait to get back to my desk and do some work. Maybe next time I will actually go away somewhere, who knows.

While I have been at the shop, during the quiet moments I have been building an AJAX/PHP/MySql powered inventory/stock management system for the shop. This can be fully customised for anyones needs and I will rewrite it once it is complete to offer it as a downloadable install. More on this later…

I have some tutes/articles for you all to look forward to.

• AJAX tabbed content
• AJAX tabbed content with php and/or mysql