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Archive for April, 2008

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Wordpress Security Update (2.5.1)

For those of you with the swanky new WP, actually unlike me at this very moment in time – you need to update now! Although it’s not been publicly announced (not that it’s the end of the world) it won’t hurt to get ahead and get the holes patched up now.
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Creating a Wordpress Theme – Part 2: Design

We’re Back!
OK folks, here’s part 2 of the 3-part series on creating your own Wordpress theme. To view the first part – Layout, click here.
This tutorial isn’t as long, I’m basically going to create a simple design in Photoshop that I can incorporate into the dimensions I’ve already specified for my theme. As I stated [...]

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Amazon’s Facelift 2

In relation to my previous article a week ago regarding Amazon’s new look which was baffling me at the time – it now seems it’s back up and running, possibly for good. So before I forget what the ancient Amazon looked like – here’s a tiny screenshot:

And the brand spanking new Amazon looks like so:

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Creating a Reflection Effect

Web 2.0! Web 2.0! Web 2.0! Glossy! Glossy! Glossy! Agh!
Yes there have been literally thousands of ‘Web 2.0′ glossy roll-overs, buttons, highlights, reflections and artificial 3D tutorials spawned over the past few years. So what? Here’s another! The reflection effect is widely used on the web today and is especially popular with logo design. I’ve [...]

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Creating a Wordpress Theme – Part 1: Layout

Waffling Intro As Usual
Welcome one and all to the first part of a 3 part series I’m tirelessly venturing to create on how to create your own Wordpress Theme. 2 questions come to mind regarding this tutorial. Firstly – why Wordpress? Well the simplest reason is that I’m quite handy at WP – I [...]

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Amazon’s Facelift

Is it just me or did Amazon.co.uk get a facelift last week to look like it’s big brother Amazon.com? But then it seems to have returned to it’s old former self?
I may seem like a complete spoon here but I could swear I was on my favourite shopping website Amazon just before I went away [...]

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Barcelona

Hey all, sorry the site has been slow over the past couple of weeks but I’ve been away in Barcelona on a little get away. Now of course I could have updated the blog from over there on the Spanish coast thanks to the power of the internet but I was generally too busy… errr…. [...]

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How Do You Judge a Website?

Many people will disagree with me I’m sure, but I’ve always thought that web design is an art. Seriously, apart from the aesthetic design side – I also feel that the technical coding and functionality of websites, and the process of combining and integrating this into the design is an artistic process in itself.
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Interview on UK2.net

A few weeks back I was approached by a representative for UK-based hosting and domains company UK2 to do a short interview to appear on their blog. The idea was to create a series of interviews with UK web ‘professionals’ (I’ve used inverted commas because I don’t consider myself to be a web ‘professional’) that [...]