Information about building web site front-ends including new techniques I’ve learnt and links to what I consider to be useful.

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

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 …

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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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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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Web Design Process

What are we trying to achieve? As soon as we realize that we need to plan a site before even touching the computer we allow ourselves to think freely and give ourselves the chance to produce a quality piece of …

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Fix your IE6 PNG issues more reliably

For about six months now, I have been to-ing and fro-ing with the whole idea of using png’s in the build process. I am very strict about how I build sites and would never use a method that not ALL …

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