Permanent Tourist
is the personal website of Mark Howells-Mead, a website developer and photographer based in Switzerland with special expertise in WordPress reaching back over twenty years.
Latest blog posts
We had some late snow just recently and although it was lovely to look at, the temperatures were brought down. I’m done with winter and cold, now. I want the mountains to clear so I can get out walking again.
I have tons and tons of drive. When I get interested in something, I can easily go overboard and spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m no genius by any means, but if I set to something which I’m passionate about, then I can usually get up to speed relatively well. My wife…
Using a constant to a Webpack build process for reusable components in your scripts.
How to “move” single WordPress posts into the page hierarchy.
Enjoying the things which make you happy in the time you have available.
A cold walk on the shores of Lac de Neuchâtel, and some lovely pink post-sunset light.
Photographic archive
Recent additions to an ever-growing collection of photos I’m sharing publicly here on the site. (Don’t be surprised if the latest additions are older. I’m adding them from my personal archive in a pretty random order.)
Videos
Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.
Walking in the snowy landscape of Axalp, high above Lake Brienz in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.
About me and the site
I’m Mark; a photographer, web developer and blogger living in Switzerland. Permanent Tourist is my personal website. I came up with the name because I try to live like an interested visitor, whether at home or elsewhere.
WordPress
WordPress is currently the most popular content management system in the world. I’ve been using WordPress for personal and business projects since 2003, both as part of my day job and also as a freelancer. I have been an active member of the Swiss WordPress community since the first official Swiss WordCamp in 2014, co-organising and presenting at conferences across the country.
