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WordPress Developer, Blogger, Video Gamer, and part-time Entrepreneur.
All these things describe me, Ben Gillbanks.

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Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love some Zelda action. So I'm in love with this trailer for a new Zelda game..?

The Lost Oracle is what every fan wants and, unfortunately, not something we're likely to see. The trailer was created by Joel Furtado - 'just for fun'.

The animation has all the Zelda trademarks, including the sound effects and music, and fans of the series will recognise the enemies and environments as ...

WordPress Theme Framework: Less Is More – Or Is It?

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I have a conundrum. I want to improve Elemental - my WordPress theme framework. I want to make it lean and fast; but this will involve removing functionality. This in turn means that when people upgrade their themes things may break.

And I don't know what to do?

Examples

I want to remove options and features and make better use of WordPress built-in functionality. For example:

HTML5: I want to move to HTML 5 for the theme. I'm in the process of making ...

YouTube: Best of 2011

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YouTube is awesome - I recently read a statistic that said that the average YouTube user is watching over 300 YouTube videos a month.

Part of this must be because of the proliferation of devices that you can watch YouTube on. The recent XBox 360 update (that I mentioned the other day) has a YouTube app that let's you watch YouTube in the comfort of your own living room. It makes a big difference watching the ...

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TimThumb 2.0

Ok - so - TimThumb. I am sure many people have seen this already but some code exploits were recently discovered in TimThumb. Now that everything is under control once more I thought I would explain what happened and what is ... read more ›

Entertainment ›

New Xbox 360 – Just For Games?

Not entirely sure how this happened but I was recently invited to be an Xbox 360 ambassador. What does this mean? Well I have been asked to write a couple of blog posts and post some tweets about Xbox. The reason for ... read more ›

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A Strange Request and Your Chance to win £200 of Amazon Vouchers

This is a slightly strange request - but I have had a pr company contact me and ask me to get my readers to fill out a survey - and the survey gives you a chance to win £200 worth of Amazon ... read more ›

About me

About BenMy name is Ben Gillbanks. I'm a lover of Video Games, WordPress, Web Development and everything in between.

I have been working on the internet since 1998, and working with computers even longer. I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and have owned most of their consoles at one stage or another.

Read more about me on my about page.


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Play and download free and paid games (many made by me)

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Stacks of shareware games, free to try and cheap to buy