This section covers a broad area of technical aspects to building Web sites. You’ll find a lot of tips and tricks as well as discussions on strategy and forward thinking

WYGIWYS – What You Get Isn’t What You See

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. …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Set up a Web Server with Fedora 10

For a long time now, I’ve been itching to learn how to set up my own home server that I alone have complete control over. I was fed up with trying to contact my hosting company to ask them if …

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Beware the Twitter API

I found a bit of a glaring hole in the twitter API the other day. I have a protected Twitter account and all I wanted to do on the Webegg site was to show one Tweet (the latest one) on …

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Adding a slidedown box with jQuery

I’m always coming up against situations where, in the planning process, you give a small consideration for a feature of the site you build, only to actually discover that to achieve this feature will take more work than you anticipated. …

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Using jQuery to Change the background and cursor

Anyone who builds fully standards compliant sites like Webegg, have come across the problem of changing the cursor on rollover or for some other reason, then tried to validate their code one to find that it fails. The right way …

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