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. Read More
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! Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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…. Read More
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… Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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… Read More
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. Read More