Heading off now! Gonna leave http://designwoop.com open on the Mac see if I get any new subscribers haha #shamelesspromotion #woop about 16 hours ago
Guest Post: 50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes
The guys over at Inspired Mag kindly asked me to write a guest post for their amazing website, which I did, titled 50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes and you can see the post here. I am happy to say that several hours after the post went live it actually appeared on Digg's homepage which is amazing! I would appreciate any help with the diggs / retweets / bumps / moo's etc to help the post stay there.
Tutorial: Using CSS Shorthand in your Stylesheets
Using CSS Shorthand is great for reducing the lines of code and preventing us typing lots of duplicate lines of code in our stylesheet's, but how many of us use it? I notice on a lot of developers stylesheets that they have multiple lines of code where only one is needed and I don't really understand why! I guess it's a personal preference, but here is how you can start coding CSS in shorthand.
5 Reason’s to work directly from your Dropbox account
Dropbox, the must have app for 2009! Right? Well for most of us with a brain it was and my god it's a life saver! For anyone who hasn't heard of Dropbox yet, in a nutshell, its a piece of software that allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Better yet, it works on Mac, PC, Linux and as from a few months back the iPhone too.
20 Great CSS Design Showcase Websites for Inspiration
We've all had days where our creativity becomes non-existant and are in desperate need of some inspiration to get us kick started again. Fortunately for us we have a huge variety of choice when it comes to web showcasing which means inspiration is never to far away.
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Favourite Links of the Week (#4) »
Posted in Freebies, Inspiration, Web Design, WordPress, jQuery on 01 Feb
Week 4 is up and here are my favourite posts/links/freebies of the last 7 days. There are not much this week unfortunately I will make up for this next week!
Favourite Links of the Week (#3) »
Posted in All Posts, CSS, Freebies, Inspiration, Tutorials, iPhone, jQuery on 18 Jan
Time again for another round of fun and exciting links! If you have any you want featuring on next weeks roundup then let me know via Twitter (via @stugreenham).
Favourite Links of the Week (#2) »
Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Inspiration, Photography, Tutorials, Web Design, jQuery on 10 Jan
Right guys, continuing on from last week, here are some of my favourite links that I have seen in the last 7 days! Some crackers here and if you agree then help me out with a cheeky Tweet, Bump or Digg! You will find all the sharing links at the bottom of the post page. Heres my #2 set of links....
Favourite Links of the Week (#1) »
Posted in All Posts, CSS, Freebies, HTML, Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorials, Web Design on 31 Dec
I am going to start a set of weekly posts that will show you my favourite links I have found, been sent or have used myself at some point. Please, if you have time to take a few minutes to help spread my posts using the share links at the bottom of the page I would be very greatful! Right heres my #1 set of links...
Posted in Freebies on 10 Dec
I have got 15 Google Wave invites at the moment going spare if you need one then post your details and I will send one your way! First come first serve bases though!
Tutorial: Clearing the <textarea> value onFocus »
Posted in All Posts, HTML, Tutorials, Web Design on 09 Dec
Quick tip that will always come in handy when creating forms. More often then not you will see a textarea that initially has some text in, something like... 'Type your message here...'. On some websites, I have noticed that when you go to type in that same textarea you have to first remove the message before you start typing yours which I find very frustratings.
How To: Get Chrome on your Mac with Extensions »
Posted in Browsers, Software, Tutorials on 09 Dec
Chrome officially rocks! right? I officially made the it my default web browser at work last week which is a big move for me as I have been a dedicated Firefoxian for several years. After Google added extension support to its browser I was hooked!
How To: Move WordPress to a new Domain! »
Posted in Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress on 27 Nov
For about roughly a year now I have been considering moving away from selfconclusion.co.uk to either 1) a new funky domain name, or 2) blog.stugreenham.com and yesterday in a wild move I took the plunge! Luckily things all went smoothly (he say's) and so far I have not experienced any major issues...
Google Sync now supports Push Mail »
Posted in News, Tutorials, iPhone on 23 Sep
Back in February I wrote a post about Google Sync and how you can sync your Google Calendar and Contacts to your iPhone wirelessly using the exchange feature on your iPhone. Well Google have now added support for push mail to their sync feature! In their blog post they write about their decision to add this.
Tutorial: Display your Latest Tweet on your Website using SimplePie »
Posted in All Posts, Social Networking, Tutorials, Web Design on 13 Sep
Okay so if you read my blog you will know I have already posted a tutorial showing you how to add your latest tweet to your website. Well this is part 2, and in part 2 we look at how to add your tweets to your blog/website in a much better way, using SimplePie.
Posted in All Posts, Browsers, Hacks, IE, Tutorials, Web Design on 27 Aug
If you tend to put a lot of PNG images on your websites like I do, then you will know how much of a pain IE6 is! IE6 can display PNG images but it doesn't play to well with transparent ones, in fact, the transparency won't work at all! To get around this I have been using the following css hack to display a GIF image in IE6...
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