Below is a selection of just some of the website I am most proud of:

Feelgr8.co.uk | Article directory

Feelgr8 is an online article directory which allows authors to submit their articles online for website exposure.

The entire website is powered by PHP and driven by a MySQL database. Users are required to register before submitting any articles. Registration involves confirming the authors email address.

Because there are so many articles on the website there are numerous techniques in place to reduce the load on the Apache server. For example: The most popular and most recent articles are cached into the database and refreshed every hour.

visit Feelgr8.co.uk

Spruzz Store | E-commerce website

This website was originally developed to sell Gadgets under the company Spruzz Ltd. The site is powered by PHP and a MySQL database.

The entire product catalogue is updated from an XML feed from www.theSelect.co.uk

Customers can request to receive an email when a product that is out of stock comes back in stock again.

visit Spruzz Store

E-Bookz | E-commerce website with instant digital delivery

This website allows customers to purchase e-books online. The site is powered by PHP and a MySQL database.

Payments are processed via PayPal, and once approved, customers are able to download their purchases instantly. Downloads are limited to 3 per customer and the download link expires after 7 days. To test the download feature there is an e-Book available to buy for £0.01p

visit e-Bookz.co.uk

SimonBell.biz | Custom built blog

This blog is powered by PHP and a MySQL database. I wanted to design a simple CMS to power my blog. New posts can easily be added, edited and removed.

visit SimonBell.biz

Purbeck Runners | Joomla CMS website

Purbeck Runners are a running club based in the Purbecks. They wanted a website which can easily be updated so I powered the website by Joomla! open source content management system.

visit PurbeckRunners.co.uk

Born in the south of the United Kingdom, Simon is a determined character; sometimes taking on more than he can handle!

Simon achieved a Diploma in Business at College in 2008 at a driple distinction level. A two year course covering all aspects of business; developing his skills, knowledge and understandings of how businesses run.

Simon Bell is an active thinking, open minded, entrepreneurial character; constantly creating new ideas and methods. He always seeks new challenges and thrives on new opportunities.

Simon\'s vast skills and experiences in ICT, business and also personal issues make him a much sought after adviser/assistant and also a great friend! Many people are often requesting his expertise in a variety of areas.

Simon is always willing to help others, but not often enough does he have the time to devote to individuals needs. Since the formation of his company Simon\'s schedule is constantly filling up to capacity. As a result he has created this personal site Simon Bell.biz to assist others when he can\'t be there himself.

Why Simon Bell .biz?

These days everyone has problems. I myself have many that I am always trying to solve. I have often called upon others when I\'ve been experienceing a problem or if something has been troubling me. Many problems I have experienced have mainly been computer, business or personal based. Because I have been able to answer so many unique, and common problems I have decided to make many of these answers or opinions available for others to read.

I feel this will be useful to many other people, much like I found information I have previously been looking for. All of the articles featured on this website are experiences I have been through or problems I have encountered.

A note from Simon:

"I hope you enjoy the work and dedication I have put into this website. The aim of this site is for me to \'archive\' as much of my knowledge and experiences as possible for others to benefit from. I help many people on a day to day basis and I hope I can now take this into an international level."

I hope you can find an answer to your questions here

This is the website of Simon Bell.

I can be reached via my contact page.

For each visitor to my web page, the web server automatically recognizes the visitor\'s IP address (where possible).

I collect the IP address, domain name and e-mail address (where possible) of visitors to my web page, the e-mail addresses of those who post comments on my blogs, articles and posts, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with me via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit, user-specific information on what pages visitors access or visit, information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information and/or site registrations.

The information I collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of my web page, used to notify visitors about updates to my web site, disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing my website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of my website.

With respect to cookies: I use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as blogs, articles or posts that visitors have viewed, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that I think might be of interest to them when they return to my site, record past activity at my site in order to provide better service when visitors return to my site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customise web page content based on visitors\' browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, I have relationships with other companies that I allow to place ads on my web pages. As a result of your visit to my site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of: Google AdSense: http://www.google.com/privacy_cookies.html.unique identifiers

Upon request I provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that I maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g. visitor number or password) that I maintain about them, communications that the visitor has directed to my site (e.g. e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g. name, address, phone number) that I maintain about them, a description of information that I maintain about them. Visitors can access this information by contacting me here.

Upon request I offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, unique identifiers. Visitors can have this information corrected by contacting me here.

With respect to security: I have appropriate security measures in place on the web server and physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that I have collected from you at my site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated privacy policy, you may contact me here.

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Simon Bell. For questions about this blog, please contact Simon Bell.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The owner of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for his posts or advertisements, he always give his honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers\' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

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