Free Style Themes for Project Seven’s Pop Menu Magic 2

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Today, 4th January 2009, the team at PVII (www.projectseven.com) are announcing the release of  free style themes for their automated menu creation plugin for Adobe Dreamweaver, Pop Menu Magic 2. When it comes to the creation and management of multi-level or single level CSS-based menus, they have created the ultimate tool. Whether you want to [...]

Custom CSS Date Blocks in Blogspot, or Elsewhere

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

When creating a new layout for your blog, blogspot, or anywhere else, you may want to design a nice CSS styled date block for each entry, rather than to have the publish date in plain text. In doing so though you will most likely hit a buffer pretty fast. The quickest & simplest way [...]

SEO Lessons from Google

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Often SEO advice is provided by non-professionals and well qualified as a bad joke, so who better to take your SEO lead from than Google, the masters of the black art, if for no other reason than for the fact that they rule the search engine market with as much as 80% of the search [...]

Looping Through JSON & Wrapping Subsets with JQuery

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

So, you have just received JSON data via an AJAX request and you need to loop through, what is effectively an associative array, wrapping every few generated html records in a wider tag set, creating record subsets and allowing you to generate the requisite code for a slider or pager. How do you go about [...]

CS4 Application Icon Replacement Set

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

A dear friend and great game, icon and all round designer, Marcus Conge, has just released his update to the Adobe Creative suite 4 icon set. Drawing on the packaging for inspiration he has created some simple, yet definitely more inspired, selection of 17 icons to replace the existing ones, that by anyone’s admission are [...]

Place Higher in Google with Rage’s iWeb SEO Tool

Friday, November 21st, 2008

If iWeb is designed to make the process of creating web pages easy, then Rage Software’s recently released iWeb SEO tool is designed to make the process of Search Engine Optimization for iWeb easier too.
As those who have been following my articles will know, I have often bemoaned the general joke that is the HTML [...]

JS Errors from Google Analytics

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Google Analytics tracking code - the little chunk of javascript that  you put on the bottom of the web page -  has been updated sometime in  the past few months. Apparently, if a user had ad blocking software
and/or certain types of security software - they would sometimes get a javascript error.
If you got or updated [...]

A Review of Flash and JavaScript Online Web Portfolios

Monday, November 10th, 2008

With so many cool ways for photographers, graphic and web designers, artists, retailers and many more to put their portfolio online and to show off their work these days it seems criminal not to use something more flashy to help separate your business, services and other offerings from the pack. Here, we provide a [...]

CSS: Building A Box Rounded Corners & Fluid Dropshadows

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Creating boxes with rounded corners and
fluid dropshadows, both horizontally and vertically, is just about the bane of any web designers life when developing with CSS/XHTML. Once you have found a way that works and is cross-browser compatible you have reached a Zen state.
Okay, well maybe not, but still it’s a pretty joyous [...]

Quick & Easy Web Form Checks with Live Validation

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Ever wanted to have super spiffy, quick and easy web form checking, web 2.0 style with AJAX? Well now, with Live Validation, you can set up form validation in 3 quick and VERY simple steps. Here is how …
Where to Begin with Form Validation
For starters you need to have the form created in [...]