Square One » Web Design http://www.squareonemd.co.uk The big agency experience at small agency cost Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How to manage multiple WordPress installations? http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-manage-multiple-wordpress-installations/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-manage-multiple-wordpress-installations/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 10:08:25 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=11215 WordPress needs upgrading because a bug has been fixed or some new features have been release oh, and there’s that favourite plugin you use and you’ve installed it across multiple sites but you can’t actually remember which site it’s on…? Can you imagine having to log in to over 100 sites just to upgrade a ... read more

The post How to manage multiple WordPress installations? appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-manage-multiple-wordpress-installations/feed/ 0 How to crop an image with a CSS class http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-crop-an-image-with-a-css-class/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-crop-an-image-with-a-css-class/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:44:10 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=9070 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

The post How to crop an image with a CSS class appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/how-to-crop-an-image-with-a-css-class/feed/ 1 Looking for the perfect responsive css framework… http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/looking-for-the-perfect-responsive-css-framework/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/looking-for-the-perfect-responsive-css-framework/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:42:59 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=8838 … 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

The post Looking for the perfect responsive css framework… appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/looking-for-the-perfect-responsive-css-framework/feed/ 4 Some favourite snippets of web design humor http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/some-favourite-snippets-of-web-design-humor/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/some-favourite-snippets-of-web-design-humor/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:22:15 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=7425 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

The post Some favourite snippets of web design humor appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/some-favourite-snippets-of-web-design-humor/feed/ 0 Guess who got a mention on WPCandy http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/guess-who-got-a-mention-on-wpcandy/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/guess-who-got-a-mention-on-wpcandy/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:27:52 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=5935 Well, as you may or may not know WP Snippets til Christmas will start rolling out snippets as of the 1st of December. I asked Brad on twitter if he’d like to submit a snippet and in the true nature of open source and sharing his knowledge of WordPress he gladly agreed so, just before ... read more

The post Guess who got a mention on WPCandy appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/guess-who-got-a-mention-on-wpcandy/feed/ 0 Open Source vs Proprietary Software http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/open-source-vs-proprietary-software/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/open-source-vs-proprietary-software/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:48:31 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=4746 After a recent hot drama on a well know social network about Open Source vs Proprietary software, I felt inspired to write this. The drama was about websites and content management and the key tone that came across was that there are two approaches to this – Open Source Software (OSS) or Closed Source (also known ... read more

The post Open Source vs Proprietary Software appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/open-source-vs-proprietary-software/feed/ 3 Is WordPress just a blogging platform or can web designers do more? http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/is-wordpress-just-a-blogging-platform-or-can-web-designers-do-more/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/is-wordpress-just-a-blogging-platform-or-can-web-designers-do-more/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:06:51 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=4730 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

The post Is WordPress just a blogging platform or can web designers do more? appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/is-wordpress-just-a-blogging-platform-or-can-web-designers-do-more/feed/ 2 Designing for mobile first? http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/designing-for-mobile-first/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/designing-for-mobile-first/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:15:03 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=4712 I have mixed opinions about this, should you design for mobile first or desktop? I understand the pro’s for mobile first but it’s got it’s pitfalls too in my opinion. I would be interested in your views too so please leave your comments below. So, if we decide we’re going straight in to the browser ... read more

The post Designing for mobile first? appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/designing-for-mobile-first/feed/ 9 Quick WordPress security tip http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/quick-wordpress-security-tip/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/quick-wordpress-security-tip/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:18:24 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=4699 Hey folks, quick WordPress security tip for users. If you run a WordPress website be careful not to use ‘admin’ as your username and Do Not use a common word as your password. Hackers can run a dictionary script and gain access to your site within seconds and that’s a bad thing! All sorts of nasty ... read more

The post Quick WordPress security tip appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/quick-wordpress-security-tip/feed/ 0 WordPress themes or bespoke web design? http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/wordpress-themes-or-bespoke-web-design/ http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/wordpress-themes-or-bespoke-web-design/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:24:38 +0000 Elliott Richmond http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/?p=4682 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

The post WordPress themes or bespoke web design? appeared first on Square One.

]]> http://www.squareonemd.co.uk/wordpress-themes-or-bespoke-web-design/feed/ 2