How to build a website in six easy steps

How to build a website in six easy steps

For most web designers/web developers, building a website comes naturally. You design it, code it, and launch it. Right? Wrong! The practice of building a website may have got justifiably shorter (or longer) depending on how you see things working online - but the theory/trick behind a good site build still stands: Planning, planning and [...]

Making Wordpress faster with Apache and PHP

Making Wordpress faster with Apache and PHP

Wordpress is one of the most popular (and my favourite) publishing solutions/blogging platforms/CMS systems online. It’s fast, reliable and best of all, free!
There are however many ways to make sure you get the best out of Wordpress and what it has to offer you in terms of the speed, power and throughput.
Below is part one [...]

Five reasons why I love tabbed navigation

Five reasons why I love tabbed navigation

There are many ways to build navigation on a website - and as most of us would know, depending on the size, scope and target audience of a website, our choices are nearly limitless. However, there is something about tabbed navigation that just does it for me. If done right, tabs create a sense of [...]

Flat input buttons or fields in Apple’s Safari? Here’s a workaround!

Flat input buttons or fields in Apple’s Safari? Here’s a workaround!

Whilst cross-brower checking my blog design in Apple’s pretty wicked Safari browser, I realised that there were going to be some issues.
Whether or not it’s considered a feature of the highly usable browser, if you set a style of ‘background-color’ on an form input, the default shine and coolness that is Apple’s Aqua - is [...]