Website Update

A few of you have contacted me raising awareness of slow loading page issues and occasionally a complete failure for the website to load. I am pleased to announce that this issue has been fixed and many of you should notice increased performance levels coming from my little blog.

If you would be so generous to allow me to geek out:

  1. Pages have now been cached which means you should notice a speed increase of at least 50%. Although my beloved scripting language php holds very dear to me it does take a couple of seconds for the server to systematically process. Caching now means that php is preloaded by freeze framing recent content as html format. This basically means all pages on my site are now html which is much quicker to load.
  2. I can now boast that this website is now mobile phone compatible (whether you are viewing my site through wap 1.0 or 2.0) and will cater for your device’s needs by scaling down graphics to give you increased loaded content. Although the mobile version of my website will appear as default this option can be switched off when viewing this website through your mobile phone.

Thank you to those of you who have highlighted the slow loading problems and I hope that this has satisfied you. It has certainly given me something to do on an otherwise formless and fruitless Monday afternoon.

xx


About Michael White

Michael White works for Microsoft dealing in the Consumer & Online department. This includes services such as Windows, Windows Mobile, MSN, Windows Live (including Hotmail and Messenger) and Bing. Michael has valuable skills in social media which has led him to be involved in social media debates on BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Gloucestershire. Michael has had numerous media appearances and has done a few talks; including the #AddMe Social Media Conference at the University of Gloucestershire. He is a past columnist for Your Local Guardian online and University’s newspaper Space. He has been interviewed in The Guardian and is always available to give talks on some of the subjects he loves. As well as a keen opinion leader on online matters he is a published poet, aspiring author, radio presenter (Tone Radio, Jazz FM and Wychwood FM), CIPR Student Rep Runner-Up 2009-2010. Michael continues his Public Relations studies at the University of Gloucestershire until 2012 when he will start taking life seriously and consider further career plans. None of the views in this blog represent Microsoft or any other involvements Michael has found himself attached to.
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