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

The Advertising Riddle

If you’re anything like me, you like reading blogs and other online content to learn things, be inspired and have a nice experience while you’re doing it. I was recently told about an article over at Usability post called ‘a …

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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 …

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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

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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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 …

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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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