Tom Walters

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  • Why Facebook is potentially fatal

    So that’s a rather brash title isn’t it? Well I feel that a subject like this needs to be met with outright forwardness and it is for this reason that I am writing this article. Now this isn’t an article bashing Facebook or it’s recently changed privacy settings, its about the people that use it.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…