With the raised awareness of the environment and the drastically increased costs of homes log cabins and other wooden buildings have become more and more popular.

When considering log cabins, they important factors to consider are planning permission and building regulations.  Planning permission is generally hard to get for any land that is not used for residential use.  Agricultural land in particular is very difficult to get planning permission for.

If you want to build a cabin in an area with existing property then planning permission is generally easier.  If you have an existing wooden building, including some caravans, that have been built with mobile building planning permission it is often possible to replace the building or caravan with a log cabin and still use the existing planning permission.

RT has a great blog system where we can talk about log cabin blog.

LogCabinsEire.ie also has an article about log cabins.

I have recently been helping out the Bush Telegraph company.

They specialise in business telephone systems in Cornwall.  They have designed and installed telephone systems for many local Cornish companies, such as Berts, allowing them to concentrate on what they do best, rather than struggling to make a few telephone calls.

Bush Telegraph also design and install computer networks in Cornwall.  Computer networks can be confusing for small businesses.  So why not let Bush Telegraph make life easier for you, to allow you to concentrate on growing your own business.

Bush are a great bunch of people, and it's a pleasure doing business with them.

I have just completed a webite for Lisa Roberts, to promote Lisa's acupuncture in Exeter services.

Lisa is highly qualified and an excellent practicer of acupuncture.

My friend Dean has been working for a few years for this great company that make log cabins in Cornwall. The company is owned by Brian, who used to run a dairy farm until the foot and mouth problems in the UK. Since then Brian has started the log cabin company, which makes and supplies beautiful bespoke log cabins in the Cornwall & Devon regions. Each cabin is custom designed and built, although some customers have ordered more than one cabin in the same style. The company is currently looking to source cheaper DIY cabins from eastern Europe, which will give the company a new arm.

As well as running North Coast, Brian has also setup a venture selling pre-made log cabins in the UK.  These are lovely cabins that are easy to assemble for those with some DIY knowledge.  These are proving to be popular buildings, and a perfect way to add additional buildings to your property.

Log Cabins South West work with a number of other excellent companies.  They provide specialist services such as the concrete for the cabin foundations, and cranes to assemble the big buildings.  You can see them on the partners page.

I have recently been working on a diving community website.  It's a great website featuring forums, member search, diving reviews, and more.

The design is great and the people running the website have great enthusiasm for it.  I think it will be very successful, and I wish them the best of luck.

Drupal is quickly becoming one of the biggest content management systems available today. It's extensive range of plugins and templates allows web masters to easily build and distribute powerful web applications.

Choosing a cheap Drupal host is a great choice for web masters who are trying Drupal for the first time, or who need to run a number of low traffic websites. Cheaper web hosting today tends to have good reliability, but disk space and bandwidth are often more restricted than with more professional hosting packages.

Choosing the best web hosting for your Drupal websites is an important choice to make from the beginning. Needing to change hosts once your web application has been deployed is a complex task. If your website is media rich you will have lots of support files that need to be moved from the old host to the new host. This takes a lot of time. It is easy for something to break during the move to a different web host. If your web application is mission critical then your project will be impacted.

Factors to consider when choosing a web host include:

1. Price - For cheap Drupal hosting you want a good value package. US$5 per month is what you should expect to pay.
2. Disk Space - Is enough space provided to cope with your current website? Will it be enough for the growth of the web site? Expect to get unlimited storage, which in reality equates to 1,000 GB, gigabytes of files.
3. Unlimited domains - how many domain names does the web host allow per account? If you intend to host websites on the account you should get an deal with unlimited domain names.
4. Unlimited databases - if you have lots of domains will need lots of databases. bear in mind that many Drupal websites have multiple database per installation.
5. Traffic limit - If you intend your websites to grow in visitor numbers dramatically you should settle for an deal that allows unlimited bandwith. Costs can be high if you go over your permissible limit.

Drupal's multisite option allows you to run many websites from a single installation. This is particularly good if you intend to run multiple websites from a single hosting package. If you update a module or template in the installation all of the websites running on the installation will pick up the updated code. This makes the maintenance of the installation easier. Even the cheap hosting hosts allow the running of multiple websites from a single package.

All cheap Drupal hosting packages will configure their hosting on shared web servers. These shared servers run multiple accounts on a single computer. Your account will sit alongside other accounts on the server and share the resources. The plus side is that the price is kept low. The bad thing is that other peoples actions on the server can disrupt the performance of your account. As a guide you can comfortably run Drupal websites expecting 1,000 unique visitors per day. If your website receives more than this many readers, then you should consider dedicated or VPS hosting.

Find the best cheap Drupal host for your websites with my top 10. Darren Lambert is a web hosting professional, and web developer who has been using Drupal for five years.

I have created a nice website for Abby to display her photographs.  The photos are from our travels and some are from Cornwall.  Abby is a keen photographer based in Cornwall.

My friend Thomas, who I met in Andalucia in 2006, has a new website as he is promoting golf in Cadiz.

Enjoy Cadiz Golf specialises in golf within the province of Cadiz and is located within the golf heart of Cádiz, namely the urbanisation of Novo Sancti Petri on the beautiful coastline of the Costa de La Luz.

Just a note about my friend Matt's computer company in Broome, Western Australia.

I've known Matt for nearly 10 years, having lived with him and his now wife Zoe, when travelling in Australia.Read more