Tom Walters

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Squarespace is great, but…

    Disclaimer: I think Squarespace provides an excellent service and I don’t hate them! So there has been a lot of hype recently surrounding the service Squarespace recently. And I read an article in .NET which was an interview with the founder, but when I finished reading I realized that I disagreed with some of the…

  • What is Social Media?

    So the term “social media” is thrown around a lot these days as a way of making people think that us designers are clever in the way in which we update Twitter feeds. But what does the term actually mean in terms of everyone involved with it? For some people such as clients, social media…

  • Replacing the […] in WordPress

    Some of you might be wondering what I mean by the […], well I am of course referring to the symbol generated by WordPress upon calling the function the_excerpt(). Now personally I really dislike the symbol which is generated as it often doesn’t fit with my design, and I always prefer to have an ellipse…

  • What’s that, another theme?!

    Ah yes, it is true, I have changed the theme on the site yet again! Why? Well because I quickly concluded that the previous theme, named “Elegancia” was rather sub-standard, and so I set about creating a more robust theme for the site. While working on this theme I’ve come up with plenty of idea…

  • Making dynamic dropdowns in WordPress

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. The latest craze which is sweeping across WordPress theme development is that of adding drop-down menus to menu items to display sub-pages. Now while this is all very simple if we take a couple of unordered-lists and stick them in…

  • Designing for the Web

    When you sit down at your computer, or with a sketch-pad and pen, to design a website, you are essentially designing for the web. But what does this actually mean? From a designer’s perspective like mine, it simply means that I take a number of things into consideration (on top of the many fundamentals of…

  • Say hello to Elegancia!

    So some time has passed now since I started this blog, and I decided that I had had enough of the excellent theme that I had in place. And as I call myself a web designer I decided that I would design a theme, specifically one based on elegance, and then use it on my…