Month: May 2010
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500 Free Business Cards Winner
So that’s it! The competition, which started only last week, is over and luckily for those who entered, there wasn’t too much opposition! So the winner of this fantastic prize, who wins a fantastic 500 free business cards from UPrinting with free shipping in the US is… Spencer Hogg Well done to him, and…
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Playing with the New Canvas Element
Full adoption of HTML5 is just round the corner, and with more and more browser-vendors making HTML5 top-priority these days, it’s time, I think, we should take a look at some of the cool things we can do with the new <canvas> element. So what is it? Well although I don’t profess to be an…
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Win 500 Free Business Cards!
Right guys here’s the deal, the kind folks at UPrinting have decided to give the readers of Tom’s Big Box an opportunity to win 500 free Colour Business Cards! They offer some amazing printing services. So whether you need them to kick-start your business, or just to top-up your stocks, this is a great chance…
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Screencast #2 – Creating a Comment Preview in WP
So it’s been a while since I’ve done a screencast, but here it is, number 2! In this screencast I’ll show you how to create a comment preview section in WordPress which dynamically loads user information and updates as you type! For it I use the trusty jQuery library and a little bit of PHP…
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Flash, and all that Jazz
So it seems that the web is alight with talk of Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash platform because of some rather interesting decisions taken, and points proposed by Apple’s Steve Jobs, but what are the main points, beyond the simple “it crashes Macs” argument? Well in the article I hope to set out a few of my…
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5 Amazing jQuery Plugins
Okay, so there are plenty of roundups of great jQuery plugins out there, but I’ve decided to put together a list of some of my favorite. I’ve compiled this list because I use most of the plugins on a daily basis, and I have found each and every one of them to be a real…
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Element Organization
So what do I mean when I say element organisation? Well put simply I’m referring to the way in which we group HTML elements in terms of either tables, divs or HTML5. Now to be honest I believe that tables these days are somewhat obsolete and I wouldn’t even bother teaching it to new web…