Tom Walters

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  • Trimming the Fat

    In light of the recent redesign of Tom’s Big Box I thought I write a post about some of the design choices I made with regard to ‘trimming the fat’. I want to look at the attitudes towards certain aspects of websites, and more specifically blogs. In re-designing the site I was constantly asking myself…

  • Site Redesign 2011

    Well I finally got around to it! For months I’ve been procrastinating and finding other thing to do, but today I am proud to announce that I have successfully redesigned the blog and built a new theme. What you see before you is the result of many hours working on design and coding (as most…

  • Updates are coming!

    I’ve not blogged in months, I know, I’m lazy. But things are going to change. I am in the process of redesigning the site and have a number of articles that I’m working on, so this is just a post to check in and let you know I’m not gone and am going to return…

  • Use PayPal for pay-per-post on WordPress.

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. As you may know I like WordPress – it’s a great platform for building websites on. As you may not know is, I like PayPal – it’s an easy to way to safely make quick payments online. Now you may…

  • Poster Giveaway – The Winner

    The other week I posted a competition to win a fantastic prize from Digital Room, to be more specific, a chance to use (for free) their online poster maker to create 1 18×24 Poster Print, Semi Gloss / High Gloss poster. Now, luckily for those who entered TBB isn’t the world’s most popular blog (yet…

  • Poster Giveaway

    It’s that time again people – when the kind folks of this world decide to use me to give things away to you guys! This time I’m happy to announce that it is a poster giveaway! So what’s the deal? Well the guys over at Digital Room have provided free access to their fantastic online…

  • My Favourite iPad apps so far

    So I’ve had the iPad for some time now, and I’ve decided to make a review of a number of the apps. Now you might be asking yourself why I’m doing this, and the reason for this, is because I want people who are thinking of buying the apps, to have a more rounded view…

  • QuickTip: Create a dotted/dashed line in Photoshop

    More and more often nowadays I am finding the need to create dotted or dashed lines in my Photoshop mockups, but what is a ten second job in CSS, could turn out to be a ten minute job in Photoshop if you don’t know how to do so easily. Before I came across the trick…

  • Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2

    In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as…

  • Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1

    In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I’ll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named “Curiosity” – the markup…