Patrick Taylor Web Design

Patrick Taylor Web Design is a small web design and development consultancy working from Bolton in the UK. I specialise in hand-crafted custom web solutions for individuals, small businesses, and other bodies to create an elegant, effective, and standards-compliant presence on the World Wide Web. The service is also characterised by attention to detail, helpfulness, quick response, and affordability.

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Marathon Pacers

In a 2004 Guardian article commenting on the 50th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's four-minute mile, Pat Butcher suggested his run was one of the worst things that ever happened to athletics. It was "cosy, conniving and dishonest, and its seminal contribution to sport has been to ruin middle-distance running worldwide." (Marathon running too, as today's race in London demonstrates.)

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A Micro CMS

Micro CMS Introducing la.plume, a featherweight micro CMS (content management system) written for anyone who wants to publish clean uncluttered web pages without the need for a web designer. Once installed, the website can be developed and managed online from any computer with a web connection.

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Wandering Black Holes

Out in space, violence exists on an unimaginable scale. In a recent article published on the BBC website titled 'Rogue black holes prowl Milky Way', astronomers and scientists are reported to believe "there should be hundreds of intermediate-sized black holes wandering invisibly" around our galaxy. Well, that's the theory. No-one has yet proved that black holes actually exist.

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