Matthew Budd is a Web Developer Based in Bournemouth. He specialises in Front-end development and Usability mainly, although he does also develop this site with the help of the Zend Framework.
Matthew has too many interests to name them all but they mostly consist of Music and throwing himself around in the briney around the Bournemouth area and the Boscombe surf reef, also known as Weights reef after the local campaigner for the project. Weights reef is the first one of it's kind on the shores of Europe. You can find out more about this by browsing the rest of the site as well as some other interesting stuff.
This, however, is not the entire purpose of this site, you can also register yourself on this site and upload your own Weblogs to keep a record of your interests and goings on. Matthew is keen to get your thoughts on things and to get you in the mood for this site, the latest 4 Weblogs from all the sites users are listed below:
Nov 23, 2008 3:44 AM
Update - Reef Delayed for another year
Work on the reef has now been suspended until April 2009, I take back everything I said in the rest of the article below. Having read the only article I can find about why the reef has been delayed for such a long period of time, all I can conclude is...
Oct 27, 2008 11:12 AM
This is a phrase that has been banging about for a good few years now but no-one really seems to know what it is. Some people think it's something to do with how a site has been designed, others think it is some kind of blogging software when the truth is it is!
Its not one or the other of these...
Oct 21, 2008 3:38 PM
I'm a big believer in Usability as you can hopefully see through your experience on the site. I have tried to apply all i know into optimising the site for search engines and it seems to be working. mattbudd.co.uk is now third first in google using the key phrase "usability south coast...
Oct 18, 2008 6:57 PM
Over the last few months I have been learning Zend Framework and it's fantastic. I am still tweaking a few areas of the site and will be working on some completely new areas.
The Zend Framework, for the uninitiated, is an MVC Framework that is intended for Developers to build online applications...
