Tom Walters

Author: Tom

  • Adding subtle user feedback

    We all hate waiting for websites to load right? It’s annoying to watch images download and wait for Twitter streams to render isn’t it? Well it’s a fact that 99% of websites have this issue – that is, that load time is about 1 or 2 seconds. Now for companies like Google it isn’t an…

  • Adding Vignettes to Images with CSS

    Vignettes are something we’ve been able to add to images in Photoshop for many years – it describes the technique of reducing clarity towards the edges of images by reducing things like saturation and brightness, and can often give an image a different quality. It was for that reason that I decided I wanted to…

  • Trimming the Fat

    In light of the recent redesign of Tom’s Big Box I thought I write a post about some of the design choices I made with regard to ‘trimming the fat’. I want to look at the attitudes towards certain aspects of websites, and more specifically blogs. In re-designing the site I was constantly asking myself…

  • Site Redesign 2011

    Well I finally got around to it! For months I’ve been procrastinating and finding other thing to do, but today I am proud to announce that I have successfully redesigned the blog and built a new theme. What you see before you is the result of many hours working on design and coding (as most…

  • Updates are coming!

    I’ve not blogged in months, I know, I’m lazy. But things are going to change. I am in the process of redesigning the site and have a number of articles that I’m working on, so this is just a post to check in and let you know I’m not gone and am going to return…

  • Use PayPal for pay-per-post on WordPress.

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. As you may know I like WordPress – it’s a great platform for building websites on. As you may not know is, I like PayPal – it’s an easy to way to safely make quick payments online. Now you may…

  • Poster Giveaway – The Winner

    The other week I posted a competition to win a fantastic prize from Digital Room, to be more specific, a chance to use (for free) their online poster maker to create 1 18×24 Poster Print, Semi Gloss / High Gloss poster. Now, luckily for those who entered TBB isn’t the world’s most popular blog (yet…

  • Poster Giveaway

    It’s that time again people – when the kind folks of this world decide to use me to give things away to you guys! This time I’m happy to announce that it is a poster giveaway! So what’s the deal? Well the guys over at Digital Room have provided free access to their fantastic online…

  • My Favourite iPad apps so far

    So I’ve had the iPad for some time now, and I’ve decided to make a review of a number of the apps. Now you might be asking yourself why I’m doing this, and the reason for this, is because I want people who are thinking of buying the apps, to have a more rounded view…

  • QuickTip: Create a dotted/dashed line in Photoshop

    More and more often nowadays I am finding the need to create dotted or dashed lines in my Photoshop mockups, but what is a ten second job in CSS, could turn out to be a ten minute job in Photoshop if you don’t know how to do so easily. Before I came across the trick…