by Stephen on December 11, 2009
As time passes by and a repetitive task becomes even more repetitive bad habits begin to creep in. Before you know it the ‘bad habit’ is no longer a bad habit; it has become normal procedure.
Sometimes you can check yourself and realise you are doing something wrong and fix it. Other times you just need [...]
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coding,
HTML,
Web Design
by Stephen on June 10, 2009
ChethStudios has recently released a nice set of social icons which features 19 services including Blogger/Blogspot, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, flickr, Design Float, LinkedIn, Mixx, MySpace, Netvibes, Reddit, RSS, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, Visualizeus, WordPress and Yahoo!
The icons are all round in shape and come in two sizes; 64×64 and 128×128. The icons are free to use [...]
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icons,
Social Media,
web graphics
by Stephen on February 9, 2009
jCrop is a jQuery plugin that allows your users to easily crop their photos to whichever size they choose.
It is very easy to set up this on your sever and Brenley Dueck has created a great screencast to guide you through the whole process.
Screencast Source : NETTUTS
Editing software mentioned in the screencast : Aptana
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Advice,
image cropping,
image resize,
images,
jCrop,
jQuery,
plugin,
screencast,
tutorial
by Stephen on February 6, 2009
Andy Budd has announced on his blog that he will be running a CSS Mastery workshop in Brighton on 16th June 2009.
CSS Mastery is the title of a book written by Andy which covers CSS in great detail. The workshop is an extension of the book and will feature many updated tips and tricks and [...]
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Advice,
assistance,
CSS,
guidance,
tutorial,
Workshop
by Stephen on December 30, 2008
I love it when I come across a webiste that opens up a whole new set of avenues for me to explore; areas of the web I have hitherto been unaware of, websites that are nowhere to be found in the search engine results pages (SERPS) or located in countries which I refrain from entering [...]
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brand,
colour,
design,
development,
Graphics,
ideas,
inspiration,
Web Design
by Stephen on December 22, 2008
Photo – allaboutgeorge
Yes that’s right, it’s all about accessibility. Accessibility is the new accessory for the web 2.0 era. This is now a critical factor in web design both on the level of aesthetics (virtual ergonomic functionality) and coding. But I hear you say isn’t accessibility a rather dull concern that stipulates functionality over form, [...]
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accessibility,
Advice,
clean code,
information,
issues,
validation,
Web Design
by Stephen on December 18, 2008
.net magazine has published an interesting article about the legal issues web designers are likely to face during their career.
The article covers issues such as contracts, infringing patents, Trade Marks or other intellectual property. It also covers the legal issues around the Data Protection Act and the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and has been [...]
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Advice,
information,
legal,
Web Design
by Stephen on December 4, 2008
All of the websites I have created during the past few years are powered by WordPress. There are a few reasons why I use WordPress, and they are detailed below:
Ease of Use
Search engines such as Google really like WordPress
It is possible to change the design of the whole site just by changing the theme
There is [...]
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design,
folders,
organisation,
planning,
structure,
Web Design