As all the obvious .com domain names have already been snatched up, people have begun to find other ways to get a memorable, meaningful domain name for their site. One way is to invent words that the domain speculators haven’t…
This week I attended the @media 2006 conference. With a ticket for the 2 day event weighing in at £460 it’s not cheap, especially for a freelancer. Back in April when I was trying to decide whether to go,…
Using Server-Side Includes (SSI) can be a useful way to manage repeating elements in your web pages if you don’t need a full dynamic solution like PHP. For a simple site with repeating header and footer elements, it could be…
This is a short tutorial, explaining how to produce the following type of effect in Adobe Illustrator:
This kind of texture is fairly popular at the moment. You can use it on buttons, navigation bars, and so on. I’ve…
I bought the Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive Gigabit Ethernet 250GB a couple of months ago as a shared storage facility for all the computers we seem to have lying around here. A couple of things attracted me to it:…
Nice surprise this morning. The first thing I did was open up my computer and log into CSS Mania and there right at the top of the list of new sites was one of my own designs.
The internet can be so useful when you’re trying to solve a problem. The other day I was trying to import video footage from our new camcorder into iMovie. The camcorder records in true widescreen but although you can apparently…
My wife and I both needed a new computer. As usual it took me so long to decide which one to get, and I considered so many factors and went through so many possibilities, that I ended up spending more…
