The Most Satisfaction?
While I enjoy most aspects of creating a website, the one part I enjoy the most is creating the initial design. I love tinkering about in Photoshop trying different colours, fonts, filters, and the...
View ArticleTop Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Read Jakob Nielsen’s report on the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. 1. Legibility Problems 2. Non-Standard Links 3. Flash 4. Content That’s Not Written for the Web 5. Bad Search 6. Browser...
View ArticleCall yourself a Web Professional
Plenty of people have been talking about whether or not those that refuse to adopt web standards in web design should be entitled to call themselves web professionals. While I agree that those who...
View ArticleGoogle Code: Web Authoring Statistics
In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. Some interesting...
View ArticleObject Oriented Programming in PHP
Object Oriented Programming is the one area of PHP programming that I’m having difficulty grasping I’ve managed to come to terms with functions, regular expressions and the likes, but I just can’t seem...
View ArticlePHP Frameworks
Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of using a PHP framework to help with the development of my web sites. The problem is, I don’t know which one to choose Some of the frameworks I’ve been looking...
View ArticleCodeIgniter Profiler: Globally Enable/Disable
Here is a quick tip for users of the CodeIgniter PHP Framework (and a reminder to myself). If you wish to enable or disable the profiler globally while developing your application (as opposed to...
View ArticleWordPress + TwinHelix ‘IEPNGFIX’
If you are having trouble getting the IE PNG FIX from TwinHelix to work in your WordPress theme, make sure that you set the correct path to the .htc file in your themes stylesheet. /* To fix IE 6 or...
View ArticleWindows 7 + VirtualBox 4.3.16 + Laravel 4.3
So, I’ve been trying to play around with Laravel 4.3 (which some people are saying is essentially version 5) which suggests you install Vagrant and VirtualBox. But it’s turning out to be a real...
View ArticleExtending a Navigation Menu in Partials in Laravel 5
This post is more of a reminder to myself on how to extend a menu in an included partial when using the PHP framework Laravel. As of this writing I’m using Laravel 5.1.16. Hopefully other people find...
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