If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

It’s been two weeks since The Copy Box changed format from a static website to a Wordpress blog, and the results have been encouraging. Not only are we enjoying working with the new site, but pages seem to be getting indexed very quickly by Google and we’ve had scores of new people sign up to our mailing list - which bodes very well for the future.

My own personal conclusion is that Wordpress is definitely the way forward for everything from personal blogs to corporate websites. The system is so flexible and powerful that even a novice can use it, while experts can achieve some truly great results building their own templates and plugins etc. Read the rest of this entry »

When Shakespeare was writing during the Elizabethan period, two types of dramatic style were merging together to form an exciting new voice. Previous to this, London theatre audiences were served up either the traditional Tudor morality play of slapstick allegory and farce, or the more rhetorical academic play based on classical Roman drama. Usually shown in universities, the latter were perhaps not much fun.

Yet Shakespeare was an innovator, and sensed that the audience of Elizabethan England was changing. Read the rest of this entry »