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LCD Monitors cause eye-strain
Well, this is something I didn’t know. I bought my LCD monitor thinking it would be better than my old CRT (cathode ray tube i.e. fancy television). And being bright (just like my monitor) I positioned...
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Why are figure skates so badly designed?
Here’s a dirty little secret. When you land a jump in ice skates you’re effectively landing flat-footed on concrete in bare feet with weights attached to your legs. And if you want to get an idea of...
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Start legal blah blah blah. Welcome to this website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which...
View ArticleGroowe toolbar
Groove toolbar? Or Groowe toolbar? It’s an easy mistake to make. I spent a long time searching for it after my latest pointless FireFox update knocked it on the head. So now you’re going to search for...
View ArticleRemoving PHP comments
There’s a lot of guff on the internet about how difficult it is to remove comments from PHP e.g. if you want to pass a comment-free file onto a client. There are boring time-consuming PHP scripts to do...
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FREE Childishly Simple WordPress Theme – so simple a child could use it!
One column example site built using Alchemweb’s Childishly Simple theme Two column content left example site built using Alchemweb’s Childishly Simple theme Two column content right example site built...
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Liquid layout bug in Chrome, Safari, Opera
UPDATE 31/1/2013: Chrome 24.0.1312.56 seems to have got its act together, Opera 12.11 is still struggling. Here’s an annoying bug in Chrome 19, Safari 5.1.4 and Opera 11.64 (and IE 8 at certain...
View ArticleA typical domain name enquiry
Here’s how a typical domain name enquiry goes: Hey there [thanks for doing your research]! I assume you own the domain name blahblahblah.com [oh, you researched that far, did you?] I’m thinking of...
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Tips for submitting to microstock companies
As a regular user of microstock for websites (hint: go to StockFresh, do not pass IstockPhoto, save £200 – or at least the mortgage on your house) here are some simple DONT’S for photographers. The...
View ArticleHow to make WordPress images responsive
One problem with WP is that it adds inline height and width attributes, which at first sight makes it difficult for images to scale proportionately and responsively (i.e. on smaller devices such as...
View ArticleAccordion effect on WordPress options page
So you want to have an accordion effect on your options page? Like this? Demo of accordion effect – click here Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi arcu leo, imperdiet et...
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How to create a website
So you want to design a simple website, huh? Maybe you’re using one of the free WordPress themes (I’ve also designed a simple theme you can use). If you’ve got a theme that’s flexible you can design...
View ArticleLanding Page Basics
What’s a landing page? A landing page is a page that users arrive at once they’ve clicked on an advert. The fact that they’ve clicked on the advert shows that they’re slightly interested in what you...
View ArticleWordPress Shortcodes
What are shortcodes? They usually look something like this: [menu] or this: [menu id="345" size="medium"] and you can add them into posts or Pages, or even directly into the structure of a...
View ArticleWhat are WordPress widgets?
WordPress ‘widgets’ are useful little things like calendars, your most popular posts, your latest posts, famous quotes, videos, slideshows, most recent comments etc. Your WordPress theme will have...
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Adding fonts to your website
What are fonts? Fonts are the style of the letters and numbers in books, newspapers, adverts and websites. There are fonts that look like handwriting, fonts that evoke feelings of speed (on the side of...
View ArticleAdding menus to your WordPress theme
The following instructions will tell you how to create two horizontal menus (with drop-down menus) called ‘Top Navigation Links’ and ‘Bottom Navigation Links’. Log into your site, look at the left...
View ArticleHow to get your saved color schemes into your Childishly Simple theme
There are two ways to insert saved color schemes into your Childishly Simple theme. But first, make sure that you install the free child theme or all your color schemes will be lost whenever you...
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Simple SEO
Currently there are three main factors for smaller sites to get decent rankings for decent keywords (words that users type into the search engines). They are links, usage data and on-page factors....
View ArticleFavicons
A favicon is a small image that shows up in your web browser (FireFox, InternetExplorer, Chrome, Opera etc.) at the top of a web page. Your browser opens up web pages in ‘tabs’, and this is where the...
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