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Bingo fun to break up your busy online presence

Bill — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:45:26 +0000

If you spend an awful lot of time online, then it’s only natural that you need something to help you unwind every now and then. Bring active on the internet means that you’re constantly on the lookout for changes you can make to your own site and interesting developments in the IT world which often [...]

Designing for a disability?

Bill — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:01:52 +0000

Web designers do you consider people with disabilities when designing your websites. Do you consider the difficulties and requirements needed to navigate your site? Seriously in this day and age your sites should cater for anyone and should discriminate in any way at all. Ok that’s a bit harsh granted you can’t cover everyone but [...]

Cross Browser pains

Bill — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:01:27 +0000

This must be every web developers and designer’s worst nightmare, in fact at times even SEO’s come across browser compatibility issues. Words from every designer’s mouth must be why browsers can’t be the same it would make our live so much easier. So very true but as always people like choice and everyone should be [...]

Freelancing, have you thought about it?

Bill — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:47 +0000

A number of web designers out there have thought about going it alone in the web design and unfortunately on some have just thought about it and never took it any further than that. For those that have it can provide mixed stories as with anything it has it good and bad points. Good • [...]

WordPress 3.0, have you taken the plunge?

Bill — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:11 +0000

WordPress have finally released their new brand spanking new version 3.0. Packed with new features wordpress can be an amazing tool for SEO’s, web designers, developers and bloggers alike. Although as usual with any software this is full of bugs which are being dealt with as we speak version three is the most anticipated release [...]

Useful jQuery plug-ins

Bill — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:59:28 +0000

Web design is a great vocation and without it we wouldn’t have some of the greatly inspired designs we have today. There’s comes a time in every web designers life where they will come across a number of challenges and one of those is with an SEO. SEO requires text rich sites which most designers [...]

Magento widgets

Ben — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:59:39 +0000

The latest version of Magento introduced a new way of displaying blocks of content on your site: widget. I bit like the way they work in WordPress, widgets in Magento are designed to help the user do more and write less confusing code. Once created, the widget can be used like a block in the [...]

WordPress RC1 is out

Ben — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:59:03 +0000

Automattic have released the latest version of WordPress 3.0 for its first release candidate version. The RC1 is now available to download from the wp site as well as auto upgrade if you are using the wp developer plugin. Testing the RC is always a good to give back to the community. Download it install [...]

What to look for in a WordPress theme – part 1

Ben — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:30:32 +0000

Choosing a theme for your new blog is often something people find difficult. Where to look for them, which one to pick, what functionalities do I need, etc… When setting up a new site, first you need to get a clear picture of what the site is going to be for your users. If it’s [...]

Google WebFont API revealed

Ben — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:08:53 +0000

Google revealed many things during its I/O conference but designers will have certainly noticed the WebFont API. The WebFont library hosts a few font you can then include on your site using the WebFont javascript API. This is across browser solution that will then allow you to use the font family anywhere. Great typography starts [...]