Having to work on and update just over 30 websites for various clients means that I need some sort of system for managing server login accounts. Until recently I’ve made do with a separate Excel spreadsheet for the account details,…
The new release of WordPress, version 2.1, definitely feels faster and has several new features, including auto-save and an ‘Uploads Manager’
As expected, the nice new code causes some existing plugins to break. Unfortunately that includes the truly excellent…
JWT+H+F is my first full-scale customisation of WordPress for a commercial website. The site launched earlier this week as a ‘Conversation Website’ for the Swiss advertising agency JWT+H+F, the idea being a sort of a cross between a traditional…
Designed by my little sister, One Breath is a lovely book of photos about freediving. Some of the shots are amazing, especially this one of the man swimming near to a whale. You can buy copies online.
A couple of weeks ago I went along to dConstruct 2006, a conference on web applications held in Brighton. I really enjoyed it and managed to pick up a couple of tips that have already been helpful in my…
Having some way to increase font sizes is pretty important for comfortable browsing. Currently Firefox and Safari allow you to force an increase of the font size on the page, leaving images unchanged. ‘Zooming’ takes this one step further and…
Currently, the code that is used to construct a web page in (X)HTML contains very little meaning about the information written on the page. Although the term ‘semantic markup’ is often mentioned in relation to web standards, the only semantic…
Here’s an interesting new use for Ajax: Humanized Reader have implemented a page that automatically adds more content as you scroll to the bottom. Imagine scrolling down your search results on Google, and having the page grow downwards as…
