A Collection of 400+ Free Fonts

Posted in All Posts, Featured, Freebies, Web Design on 22 Feb

Typography is an integral part of any design and getting it right can take your design from good to great. Finding the right font is the tricky part and can often take up a lot of your whilst you test out different fonts styles, etc. Font's can also be very expensive costing anything from a few quid up to several hundred which will soon eat up your budget.

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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!

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Guest Post: 50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes

Posted in Inspiration, News, Web Design on 25 Jan

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.

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Tutorial: Using CSS Shorthand in your Stylesheets

Posted in All Posts, CSS, Tutorials, Web Design on 14 Jan

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.

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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....

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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...

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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.

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20 Great CSS Design Showcase Websites for Inspiration

Posted in All Posts, CSS, Inspiration, Web Design on 08 Dec

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. Below are some of my favourites showcase bookmarks that I tent to turn to in those 'desperate' times.

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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...

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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.

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PNG Image fix for IE6

Posted in All Posts, Browsers, Hacks, 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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Tutorial: Image hover/fade effect using jQuery

Posted in All Posts, Tutorials, Web Design on 16 Aug

I recently came across this cool about us page and instantly fell in love with the hover over effect they used on the images. Well anyways, I tought myself how to do this same effect and now I'm going to show you guys how to do it! It's very easy to do but very effective! Here is another cool site that has also used a similar effect and I'm sure you will agree it really makes the page stand out!

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Help get rid of IE6

Posted in Browsers, Web Design on 05 Aug

Where to start with IE6! Well for a web designer, its the devil! Literally! It's been a nightmare for many years now. The browser is so out of date its unreal, and its Microsoft's responsibility to do something about it. They have now had long enough, and now its our duty to give them a push!

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Tutorial: Display your Google Feedburner count on your Website

Posted in Tutorials, Web Design on 28 Jun

Following on from my tutorial that shows you how to display your latest Tweet on your website, I will now show you how to show of your Feedburner subscribers count in plain text on your website. Feedburner does already give you the option to display your count on your site using their 'chicklets' but these are widget like icons that aren't particularly customizable and for my site, they did not look right!

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Tutorial: Display your Latest Tweet on your Website

Posted in Tutorials, Web Design on 13 Jun

You will have noticed that I display my latest Tweet in the header of my website (look up). Until recently I have been using the Twitter for WordPress plug-in, but I was experiencing problems and 9/10 times my page loaded I would get the error message instead on my Tweet! This became increasingly frustrating, as my site would get featured on someone else's blog and the screenshot would contain this error message.

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Reverse Your Email with CSS and Prevent Spam

Posted in All Posts, CSS, Hacks, Tutorials, Web Design on 30 Apr

SPAM... Literally the most annoying word! When I used to work in IT Support, I would constantly get asked how to stop spam, and my reply would always be that you can't! There is only so much software you can install / filters you can set going before you realise, the spam eventually reaches you anyway, fact! It's just part or web life.

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(Nerd)Press Theme Released

Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Web Design, WordPress on 26 Apr

This post is long overdue I know, but I thought I would share the latest goings on in the land of (Nerd)Press, which is that version 1.0 is officially released onto the web for all you WordPress fans to download and use should you want to!

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Working with Custom Fields in WP

Posted in All Posts, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress on 31 Dec

Every one who uses WordPress for there blog will have no doubt at some point noticed the section labelled 'Custom Fields'. Now be honest, how many of you use this feature on your Website? or how many of you at least understand what it does? The feature is infact very handy and with a few simple steps, it can really make your WP Theme stand out, but there are many who don't take advantage of it! Hopefully if your reading this you have some understanding of how WordPress works, and fingers crossed you are aware of the WP Loop that pulls your posts to display on your site. If you are not familier with the Loop then this page will be ...

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Removing the Dotted Hyperlink Borders

Posted in All Posts, CSS, Hacks, Tutorials, Web Design on 12 Oct

I love Firefox, it is my favoured browser but there is one little thing that really frustrates me, especially from a designer point of view. You may, or may not have noticed that the browser adds a dotted border around hyperlinks that only become visible upon activating the link. For many this is probably not a problem as its not exactly causing any problems to anyone, but I don't like it.

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WP .XML Test Data Import

Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress on 08 Sep

If you have read any of my previous posts about the mighty WordPress, then you might be able to work out I am a big fan! Very true indeed! Infact 99% of the sites I have done use it. When creating a design I won't build it into WordPress from the start, main reason is that I can concentrate fully on the HTML/CSS code and not have to worry about PHP loops, etc. Much simpler!

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