It’s been a while…
I’ve not posted for a while, as I’ve been busy putting together my new portfolio page and CV and then integrating the design into this here blog. I’ve now got a backlog of geeky topics to get blogging...
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Designers – Leave the interface elements alone!
Most desktop applications make heavy use of standardised GUI components such as drop-down menus, tabs, and buttons. Some applications, often web applications, try something different… and fail. Flash...
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Writing for the Web – Keep It Simple, Stupid!
You might have heard of the KISS principle which stands for “Keep It Simple, Stupid!” The idea is, rather appropriately, quite simple – design things to be as simple as possible to avoid confusing...
View ArticleAmazon Associate Link Localiser
I’ve been a member of Amazon’s Associate program for a number of years and have posted affiliate links to books discussed on this very blog. The program means that by putting my affiliate ID into any...
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Apple have been getting more and more bad press recently, mostly revolving around the iPhone and it’s app approval/rejection process which has become increasingly unpredictable. Hopefully, if enough of...
View ArticleHow to Speed Up Your Site and Get a YSlow Grade A
When I first launched my homepage it earned a Grade F in Yahoo’s YSlow. This post explains how I decreased load time and achieved a Grade A. If you’re not familiar with it, YSlow is a Firefox Add-On...
View ArticleAmazon Affiliate Link Localizer WordPress Plugin
Download Current Version: Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer 1.8.3 Last Updated: 19/03/2013 Description This plugin not only automatically changes any Amazon link on your site to use your affiliate ID,...
View ArticleAmazon Link Localizer Greasemonkey Script
#suggest { display: none; } This Greasemonkey script will convert links to international Amazon sites into links to your local Amazon site. So if I link to a product on Amazon.co.uk, you will get a...
View ArticleDisplay HTML OL/UL list as comma-separated sentence with CSS
On a site I’m currently working on, it seemed best to display an OL as a list in sentence form. For example: <ul class="commaList"> <li>one</li> <li>two</li>...
View ArticleGenerate HTML5 tag’s datetime attribute in PHP
Having just finished reading Introducing HTML5 I’m rather excited about all the new HTML5 tags and can’t wait to get using them! One of the new semantic tags is the <time> tag which is used to...
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