Author: Tom
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…