Tom Walters

Author: Tom

  • Quick Update

    So I just thought I better update the ol’ blog – not posted since 2011 – yikes! I’m still here, and I’ve not given up on it! 🙂 I’m busy working on a large-scale project at the moment, so I’ve been consumed with work, but I will be posting a bunch of stuff relating to…

  • Create a dynamic Twitter-search feed

    For years the ancient (and some would say instinctive) art of tweeting was restricted to the avian species of the sky, but recently a service has come about that allows us humans to partake in the practise. You might have heard of this little company, they call themselves Twitter, and have provided an extensive API…

  • RWPhysio

    RWPhysio

    RWPhysio is a new business in the Cheadle area that serves to help those affected by sports-injuries and other problems associated with movement and mobility problems. To inform people about the business the company came to me to produce a sleek website and various print media.

  • Tank Maintenance NW

    Tank Maintenance NW

    Local business Tank Maintenance North West wanted to launch itself into the industry with a professional marketing strategy and good-looking website. For that, they came to me to ask for a simple website that would properly convey their friendly and passionate business.

  • Create a bullet-proof contact form

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Contact pages are usually one of the basic building blocks of any website, and while many simple feature an email address for spam bots to pick up and use, or even a handy ‘mailto’ link, the best ones feature a…

  • Essential Cuisine

    Essential Cuisine

    A market leader in the field, Essential Cuisine, wanted to create a sophisticated tool for showing chefs just how much money they might save if they used their products. The result was a simple interface with a powerful core, to be used by company reps help prospective clients just how much better off they would…

  • Prevent broken animations in jQuery

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I recently posted an article on Animating a Site’s Loading using jQuery – a handy technique to spice up any site. But an issue that became apparent using this technique, along with some other animation methods, is that sometimes user…

  • Importing hand-drawn art into Photoshop

    Using Photoshop to design websites it great – it allows for pixel-perfect designs that can then be styled to your hearts-content using all the powerful tools included in the application. But sometimes it’s nice to add a human touch, and have hand-drawn art in our designs. Now I personally don’t do this all too often,…

  • Hide an element with jQuery whilst scrolling

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Today I came across an interesting problem that no amount of Google searches could solve. So I had to knuckle down and come up with a solution – and surprisingly it was much more simple that it had first appeared.…

  • Animate a site’s loading

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. There are a lot of things we can do as web designers to improve the UX of a site, much of the time subtle animations can be added to add a bit of finesse to a page, and a new…