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Posted on September 4th, 2011
Since the rise and the increasing popularity of Facebook, there has been an increasing pressure on ensuring that your site is social media friendly, and can be easily shared with a user’s friends. If a user decides they wish to share your page or site to their friends, it is important that you have prepared for this correctly, otherwise it will not display correctly on their Facebook profile, and therefore may cause them to unshare the link. Read on…
Posted on August 21st, 2011
A new style of page background has been emerging into website designs and development over the last few years, which involves an image being stretched to 100% of the browsers height and width. However, because of variations in screen and browser size (especially on a Mac), several approaches have been introduced to enable the image to be kept in proportion, and therefore adjusting to these variations. Read on…
Posted on June 2nd, 2011
When I first heard about ‘HTML5′, I immediately thought it just was a newer version of HTML, a stricter and more structured programming language than XHTML Strict/Transitional 1.0. Even when I was reading ‘Hardboiled Web Design‘ by Andy Clarke, which provided great information about CSS3 and newer approaches to web design and development, I was still unsure about what exactly HTML5 was. Read on…
Posted on March 17th, 2011
An important portion of the work I do, which comes naturally to anyone working within the web industry is cross-browser testing. Without boring you too much into why it is needed, let’s just simply put it that not all browsers ‘read’ websites in the same way, which means that one aspect of a page may look differently in one browser to another. Read on…
Posted on January 18th, 2011
Over the last few months, I feel i’ve probably learnt more about emerging web technologies than during the whole three years of my university course. This is not purely down to added pressure with deadlines before and after Christmas, trying to provide the best solutions for clients in the short time available, but also as I have been reading up on certain technologies. Read on…
Posted on December 19th, 2010
I can now successfully say that i’ve had a good amount of experience with both Drupal and WordPress, but there is a lot of talk out there comparing which of the two is the best, so i’m going to jump on the bandwagon and give it a go myself. Read on…
