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

• WYGIWYS – What You Get Isn’t What ...

  • There are many discussions going on at the moment, on the subject of whether it is better to Redesign your old site from scratch or adopt a strategy of making seemingly small visual changes throughout the design of your site. …

• WordPress, THE guide ...

  • Over the last few weeks, I’ve been putting together quite a comprehensive online documentation system for the WordPress platform, more specifically for the Theme creation side of WordPress. Theming is the way Web Designers can customise a new site for …

• Nest the list, not the size ...

  • I’m always looking for the best way to build Web sites and one thing that always seems to catch me out is the use of a unit called em. This unit is a more recent convention which Web designers overuse. …

• jQuery page recognition menu & accordian ...

  • 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 …

• Not just a pretty face ...

  • There are so many quirks in so many different browsers, that I could not possibly account for all of them for any and every eventuality during the build process. They can arise from the simplest layout to the most detailed …

• 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 …

• Flicker effect with jQuery ...

  • During the design process of a recent project homepage, I wanted to use an effect that native jQuery plugins or javascript effects could not achieve in the way I wanted them to. My idea was to have as spooky a …