Author: Tom
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Reality check: Why Adobe Muse doesn’t matter.
Recently a number of people in the web community, specifically developers have been complaining about Adobe Muse, a website creation tools for people without coding knowledge. And while I agree that Adobe doesn’t know what the community wants, I think the reactions to this tool have been a little too big. Here are my musings…
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10 Best Practises for jQuery Beginners
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. jQuery is the one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks available; it enables developers to write code that is easy to understand but that also allows really powerful functionality. There are a boat-load of tutorials out there on jQuery, and…
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LawQuiz
Law students across the country were in desperate need of an aid to learning outside of the classroom. Something simple enough to use on the go, but effective enough to boost exam results. And so, using the skills of an experienced teacher, LawQuiz became the simple solution to an important problem.
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St Ann’s Church
St Ann’s needed a refreshed website to allow members of the parish to update others about all the ongoing activities going on. They wanted an easy to use and easily-maintained site tailored to some very specific needs. I was able to create a platform for them to publish and update content, while at the same…
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Cooking Pete
Award winning chef Peter Walters (yep he’s my dad) wanted a website to store all of his fantastic recipes, and the ability to blog about developments in the industry. He wanted a website he could easily update, and one that others would find useful. Getting the rankings on Google was therefore very important, and within…
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Wragg Catering
Wragg Catering was in need of some logo design love, as well as a new leaflet. So to encapsulate the business I decided a birthday muffin would do the trick, and they’ve been getting new business ever since. This project was to be completed very quickly, and with a turn-around time of just 2 weeks,…
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Tom’s Big Box
Tom’s Big Box is my own personal blog, and earlier this year I decided to give it a polish and redesign the blog. Not only is it a fully featured Wordpress theme, it’s also the place where I share all my solutions to tough technical problems I encounter when designing and developing my websites. When…
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Force JS replace to work on all occurrences of needle
When manipulating strings in JavaScript a useful method to know about is the replace() method. It take 2 parameters – the needle and the haystack. So if you wanted to replace ‘cat’ with ‘dog’ it might look something like this: var myString = “The cat jumped over the fence”; var myNewString = myString.replace(“cat”,”dog”); document.write(myNewString); Great it worked.…
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Build an early sign-up mailing list system
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. When you’ve got a great idea for a product its often hard to resist buying up the domain name for it, but what do you put there? A coming soon logo? A paragraph about what you’re making? How about allowing…
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Spice up your Hyperlinks!
Now the words ‘hyperlink’ and ‘sexy’ rarely frequent the same sentence in my household, but something which appears to have come into fashion lately (namely I’m using it ;)) is the fading in of the hover state on hyperlinks. So instead of simply specifying the :hover state in your CSS, you use JavaScript or CSS3…