Simon Cox
Creating buildings from laser-cut 2mm MDF and card
Simons railway modelling has been invigorated with a laser-cutter and he explains how he has detailed models of cottages and a Customs house
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I don't write that often about Technical SEO Auditing or some of my hobbies, such as modelling narrow gauge railways, but when I do it's usually to share something I have found or something I have had fun doing. Hopefully these articles will help and encourage others to have a go, solve an issue or provide a modicum of light relief and a titter. Commenting is tucked away at the bottom of the pages and please do feel free to leave a comment.
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Simon Cox
- Aug 28, 2019
- 3 min
Creating a Cloudflare Worker to lazy load images
Workers are available from Cloudflare and Google Chrome has native lazy loading, so I tested both together.
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Simon Cox
- Jul 28, 2019
- 2 min
Pludgebanging words into Google
I was testing out different made up words to see what Google returned.
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Simon Cox
- Jan 2, 2019
- 5 min
Using Google Data Studio to review your http to https migration
Migration from http to https can be fraught with issues you need to track and check. I looked for a way to help track migrations and give me
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Simon Cox
- Dec 26, 2018
- 4 min
A scratch-built rail-bus for the Ding Dong Moor Railway
I was inspired to scratch build a copy of one of Reinier Hendriksen's rail-buses from his original article of April 1999
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Simon Cox
- Aug 2, 2018
- 5 min
A first look at Safecont content quality analysis SEO tool
Review of a new tool from Data elasticity S.L in Spain that analyses the quality of your websites content
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Simon Cox
- Feb 10, 2018
- 2 min
How to find insecure pages in your site before Google start penalising them
Google will be highlighting all non-secure sites from July 2018 meaning that the Insecure Content Report of Screaming Frog will be in use a
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Simon Cox
- Nov 29, 2017
- 3 min
How I add canonicals into Perch CMS sites
The Canonical link in a page's header lets the search engines know where the original page resides.
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Simon Cox
- Oct 5, 2017
- 4 min
How to solve the Apple mail Unable to verify account name or password issue
Have you been unable to verify account name or password, or changed your keychain password and had issues with Apple mail and services?
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Simon Cox
- Sep 18, 2016
- 2 min
Using a CDN to help migrate your sites hosting
Moving a site to new hosting can be fraught with issues. Here is one technique that I find useful when moving to a website to a new hosting
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Simon Cox
- Oct 3, 2014
- 2 min
Halle Marchandise en bois
A plaster model kit of a classic French wooden goods shed.
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Simon Cox
- Sep 26, 2014
- 2 min
Small Run Batch Deutz OO9 kit - part 2
Completion of the SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM chassis including the running gear and motor with the bodywork following.
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Simon Cox
- Sep 14, 2014
- 2 min
Small Run Batch Deutz OO9 kit
My attempts at building the Small Run Batch Deutz OO9 kit by Stuart Brewer.
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Simon Cox
- Sep 13, 2014
- 1 min
Whitesands Quay first outing
Whitesands Quay first outing gets it out of the house and sets some deadlines for me to work to.
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Simon Cox
- Jul 13, 2014
- 1 min
Whitesands Quay - Row of cottages - chimney pots
Some finishing touches including new chimney pots
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Simon Cox
- Jul 13, 2014
- 2 min
Whitesands Quay trackwork
I have now built two versions of the track-work. Both have issues.
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Simon Cox
- Jul 12, 2014
- 2 min
La Meuse - construction
Brass, nickel silver and white-metal kit of the Belgian La Meuse 2-6-0 narrow gauge locomotive used on the French sugar-beet lines
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Simon Cox
- Jul 11, 2014
- 2 min
Whitesands Quay - row of cottages
First set of buildings for Whitesands Quay is the Row of
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Simon Cox
- Nov 14, 2013
- 4 min
Plots and scheming
We have always wanted to grow our own vegetables - not to a 'good life' extent but we both grew up in families that were in 'make do and men
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Simon Cox
- May 28, 2012
- 2 min
EU cookie consent law largely ignored
The EU has give the UK until May 28th 2012 to comply with the cookie consent law - how many of the organisations pinpointed by the ICO have
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