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It takes all kinds of wierdos to make a world. Websites need to cater for everyone. Webegg is fully aware of this.

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Webegg makes sites that look as good on popular Tablets and Smartphones as they do in the browser.

User Experience

Usability is a hugely important part of good Web design. The Study of UX is something Webegg is passionate about.

I'm a Web Developer dedicated to inspiring design using modern & standard practices.

Interface Design

Web site design continues to move at a fast pace. My years of creative experience, especially in Front End Development, means that Web sites I build put the fun in functional.

User Experience

The users experience (UX) has become increasingly important in modern web site design. I use the latest techniques to make the UX engaging - plus leading the user at the same time.

Web Services

Web services can be used create some useful functionality without unecessary work on a system built from scratch. I can learn or leverage knowledge I have of existing Web Services.

Web Standards

Surprisingly few Designers have caught on to the importance of standards in web design. For me, it is the most important driving force behind all the sites I build.

Unique Sites

When there is a rock solid plan for a startup business online, I also have experience with the server-side scripting language php. I am able to provide solid advice on feasability and strategy for many projects.

CMS, eCommerce

There are a huge array of web applications for free or otherwise that I can set up and introduce you to, the main advice I can give you here is, keep it simple or people won't buy from you.

Welcome

This site is the offspring of Matt, a Bournemouth based Web Developer who has over 12 years of experience covering a vast array of skills ranging from User Experience through to Interactivity design, Search Engine Optimisation (the proper kind) and PHP (the stuff that makes the cogs go round).

If you're here to learn at any level, you're in the right place. My aim is to provide no nonsense articles mixed in with more in depth coding to help anyone at any level.

Please bear with me as I have just redesigned the site entirely to make things even easier to use and find. I intend to organise the current content into levels as well as topics.

This area is intended as an extra no nonsense guide in general areas of the site to help you around and reassure you that there is a respectful and professional human being behind all of this. I hope you enjoy using the site.

Learn something about making Web Sites. These articles are for anyone involved in using, designing or building them.

  • WordPress Custom Post based on a template

    • Having been busying myself on the redesign of this site over the last week or so I invaded the custom post functionality of WordPress to try and make the process a little more organised and straightforward. There’ll always be an element of variable copy and paste tediom but found that it can at least be […]

  • Responsive Javascript

    • I have been building fully responsive web sites for a couple of years now and it became abundantly clear early on in that time that although responsive sites and the use of Media Queries to build them is a great thing because it reduces the need for multiple sets of code and management of both […]

  • Mobile Web sites; a new way

    • I’ve been building Web sites professionally for over 7 years now and in that time the Landscape of getting a site from the flat graphic state, to a state where users can interact with it have changed dramatically. Working without a script, piecing together client expectation over new technologies is an everyday balancing act where […]

  • Local Web sites on iPad & mobile

    • When I build sites I, like a fair few other Web Designers, use a local server setup. For me it’s WAMP at the moment. In order to work on many peoples sites at once, not having to copy/paste or constantly rename things, I have to use a combination of the Windows hosts file, which is […]

  • Don’t be an anti-semantic

    • I often get the feeling that there are many people who hear the word ‘Semantics’ mentioned by Front End Designers in passing but don’t really know what it means. Rather than go straight into Web Semantics & how this relates to the Web and building semantics into HTML, I think it is important not to […]

  • jQuery Multiple Filter

    • Lately I have been much more focused on creating useful things that I have had the motivation to actually write a Blog post on something I made a while ago. I should point out that this is quite advanced and some undertsanding of the finer points of HTML/CSS/jQuery are necessary in order to understand every […]

  • Modular layouts and content

    • What a difference CSS makes Left outset image. See right set image for explanation. Firstly, your eyes aren’t decieving you. For my latest post I’ve decided to show you the power of ‘Modularisation’, a technique which attempts to simplify layout, mainly for the client. I was inspired after reading articles from people like Elliot Jay […]

  • FOUT – What’s that all about?

    • What is FOUT? Flash Of Unstyled Text is a phenomenon that occurs in some browsers when using the @font-face rule in css. The @font-face rule as I’m sure most professional Front End Designers already know, is one of the most hotly debated design tools that make using beautiful and more importantly accessible and selectable Typography, […]

  • Web Standards – So What?

    • The Web has been around for a good few years now. Most people are aware of it, if not using it in their every day lives. It has come a long way since the early nineties when Web pages consisted of a bunch of simple tags that linked to other pages with basic information in […]

  • jQuery page recognition menu & accordian

    • View the entire menu in action If you are a Front End Developer who gets frustrated, working with back end system where you can never seem to have fine control over the menu design. With the following technique, you should now have an extra option if you can’t explain what is required to a back […]

  • Progressive Enhancement is a good thing

    • The Web of today is changing. Whether we, as Web professionals, like it or not. There are currently about 10 browsers (taking into account versions, which often differ from each other) on the market within which Web sites need to function. As a front end designer who is conscious of the way businesses have to […]

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