Alex Hardy


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Archive for October, 2008

Charles meets Barack

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I don’t normally blog political, but I had to post a video that I saw via Daring Fireball:

To paraphrase a film you may know, fear and ignorance are a path to the Dark Side. They seem to be all the McCain/Palin campaign is based on – which can only be hurting decent Republicans who want to tackle the real issues, not trade slurs.

I don’t see Obama as some sort of saviour who can right all the world’s wrongs, but I choose the hope of people like Charles over fear.

If I were a voter in this election, I know where my cross would go.

simpleContact Pro is available now

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I’ve kept my promise of an October release with just a couple of days to spare!

simpleContact Pro is made for the professional, or indeed anyone building a website that wants a bespoke contact form and mailing list opt-in. No programming is needed and you can be up and running in just a few minutes.

I always intended to build ‘Pro, even when I started working on simpleContact Lite. ‘Lite is used by individuals and companies of all sorts and the response has been wonderful. Now features including custom fields, a double opt-in mailing list and CSV export are available to anyone. ‘Lite users can upgrade easily, migrating their settings and data with just a click.

My highest priority has always been a polished, user friendly interface. I do not work to implement a laundry list of functionality. I am a web designer / developer by day – this is what I do. I understand which features are important and that time is money.

To be able to deliver a sophisticated result with a minimum of fuss is key. Even the most skilled programmer knows that the easy solution is often the smart choice. With simpleContact Pro you can dispense with one of the trickiest, most time consuming development tasks and focus on your content.

Head over to my updated downloads section to find out about simpleContact Pro!