Dec
13
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 [...]
Posted in Web Design
Continue reading How to build a website in six easy steps
Dec
2
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 [...]
Posted in Wordpress
Continue reading Making WordPress faster with Apache and PHP
Nov
17
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 [...]
Posted in IA, Usability, Web Design
Continue reading Five reasons why I love tabbed navigation
Oct
25
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 – [...]
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Continue reading Flat input buttons or fields in Apple’s Safari? Here’s a workaround!