Welcome

Thanks for visiting my personal web presence the home of 'web guru' Kristian 'Krispy' Brown. Think of it as a portal and entrance to some of my latest web creations, where you may also find some of my ramblings and recommendations.

I have had an online presence for over 14 years, running some varied and popular websites (from Terry Pratchett fansite to a greetings card e-commerce site). I earn my crust as a senior Java J2EE developer, and also consider myself a bit of a Oracle/Relational database 'expert'. I also can turn my hand to ETL (that's extract, transform, and load to you), UNIX scripting, C development, and through my personal experimenting, PHP, HTML and Mysql. I've also been known to try my hand at photoshop and adobe premier for some video editing, but I would always point visitors to my designer/video production mate David @ id8 for that sort of work.

What sites do I have online?

Short Fiction is my latest baby, a for non profit short story website. Writers can register (for free) and post their stories to me using the custom written PHP pages, and anyone (again for free) can browse those stories and enjoy a read. I have writer competitions, which uses my PHP/Mysql code to log their votes.

Lord of the Rings Online - a Fansite, is my Lord of the Rings Online fansite - a MMORPG game based in Middle earth. Now with over 1,100 members, THE euro fansite for this great MMORPG game.

Jumpgate Evolution.co.uk Another fansite created by myself, for an upcoming space action MMO - Jumpgate Evolution. The site is powered by PHP Fusion CMS system, with a custom look and feel.

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Who do I use for hosting facilities?

All my sites are hosted with the same company, 1&1, the largest internet hosting company in Europe. One and One offer me the hosting I need for fully functional websites, with the features and power at a really decent price. Click here to hear why I use them to host my websites and provide me PHP and Mysql database hosting.