Do you know how to crop an image with a CSS class? Let me show you how I would do it. Using CSS to crop an image is not a new thing but perhaps not common knowledge. With the use of the Positioning and Overflow properties it can be easy to achieve – using relative … read more

… believe it or not I’m thinking that Square One is looking a little tired and could do with a refresh so I started looking for the perfect responsive css framework. Bootstrap was the first, coincidentally a web project that was recently handed over to me was using the same framework so it was a … read more

A web consultant once said to me that “there’s no money in print”. I presume that by this he means that the world of printing i.e. brochures, leaflets, newsletters and the such are in decline due to the rise of the internet (not a new thing of course!) and the importance of companies having a … read more

I catchup with podcasts at the gym and sometimes they have some little cheesy gems of humor, here are some favourite snippets of web design humor I’ve heard recently. How do you build a web designers sandwich? Well you start with lettuce, mayo, tomato then finish of with a slice of ham…. HTML for short! … read more

How’s about a WordPress treat for Christmas? In the spirit of good will, peace to all men and in the spirit of community sharing we have decided to run a mini site dedicated to WordPress snippets and what better way to do so than with a Christmas Advent Calendar using a WordPress installation. All the snippets … read more

I found out today that the WordPress 3.5 release date will be 5th December with some sweet improvements to the Media Library, including the ability to attach images to posts via the Media Library it’s self rather than having to re-upload individual images – now thats going to be handy! Haven’t actually installed the beta … read more

Is WordPress just a blogging platform? Originally, yes! Actually it’s a very powerful publishing platform. Combined with good web design and good content it can be any type of website. Social, e-commerce, resources or a very powerful content management system. A non-public installation of WordPress could even be used as a very powerful CRM system … read more

WordPress is currently the most popular publishing platform in the world with over 60 million people choosing to use it! The question is ‘why is it so popular..?’ The answer is not that difficult … because, it’s so easy to use you could teach your granny to use it! In-fact your granny could download it and … read more

Someone recently asked me if I could recommend a reliable offsite SEO company, my short answer was no! I’ve never found a reliable partner to work with as yet, not to say there aren’t any just that I haven’t found one. Queue quick tip, here’s a bit of SEO advice for you… A bad offsite SEO company … read more

From a design and marketing point of view having well structured website headers with a good user interface (UI) is going to impart a good user experience (UX). A fundamental facet for the user is going to be the header of your website and that at least should include your branding, clean navigation, contact details and possibly some … read more

With the advent of the new twitter embedding feature for WordPress, here are a few of my favoured tweets over the past few weeks… http://twitter.com/edgeitsupport/statuses/204600468398284801 http://twitter.com/nikkiwriter/statuses/196921824590831616 http://twitter.com/nikkiwriter/statuses/195597958127947776 http://twitter.com/kevwiles/statuses/175516157112094720 http://twitter.com/kevwiles/statuses/173054643100848131 http://twitter.com/poburke/statuses/171917856060096512  

There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially … read more