Web Development and SEO

Be careful what you ask for

Steven Fleet — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:29:31 +0000

homebase_extraction_fan Originally uploaded by surfgimp Homebase seems to have an interesting fall back when you submit a query that it doesn’t know. It gives you random stuff in the hope that you’ll buy it. I suppose there’s more chance of buying something than having a “sorry we can’t find that” page with no products. This [...]

WordPress theme versus blank theme

Steven Fleet — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:36:28 +0000

When learning a new skill the process can be accelerated by seeing how other people have accomplished the task. When it comes to themes for wordpress there are lots available ranging from free to paid for. These can come in various setup’s i.e. one column, two column etc. Therefore when designing a new theme for [...]

Sexy Forms

Steven Fleet — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:27:20 +0000

We’ve all seen forms of varying types littering the internet. My approach always used to be to get the table tags out and enclose my form in a table of varying complexity depending on how I wanted to make the form look. Then came the eureka moment that the resulting form is buried in a [...]

Essential add-ons for firefox

Steven Fleet — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:31:38 +0000

The true power of firefox is in the add-ons available. For the web-developer there are a number of add-ons which are not only essential but also means that most of the time you only need firefox to carry out your work. The list of these include: Web Developer firebug – Great tool for debugging javascript [...]

WordPress theme tutorials

Steven Fleet — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:58:10 +0000

One of my New Years resolutions is to create a custom design for this blog. One slight problem is that I’m more of a developer than a designer. Give me an image and I can slice / dice, write the css and develop the theme quite easily. Here’s the killer, blank space frightens me. To [...]

New Year, new promises

Steven Fleet — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:28:07 +0000

January is upon us again. Finally got rid of the turkey now is the time to look forward and set some goals to see what great changes we can make happen this Year. Here are some of my online New Years Resolutions. 1. Blog: Write at least two posts a week. The topics will be [...]

phpbb3 forum, the fight against spam

Steven Fleet — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:25:20 +0000

PhpBB is one of the most popular forum programmes on the net. Of-course with the added benefit that it’s free (Open source is cool). As usual the problem with popular, great online systems is they attract the most evil of online folk known as spammers. They do have other names but this is a family [...]

jquery igoogle style dashboard with flickr feeds and extras

Steven Fleet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:21:31 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of igoogle for a couple of Years. It’s great to have instant access to so much information without the need to visit numerous pages. I wanted to replicate a much scaled-down version for one of my sites. I found a great tutorial to create my own igoogle style dashboard. It [...]