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Care in the community
25.01.12
I’ve been doing web design now for nearly 10 years. Most of it was done from an office whilst working at a company. For 5 years, my web world was literally 10 people, all of whom worked at the same office. Then one day I joined Twitter. It took me a while to get into it. Finding the balance wasnt [...]
New Adventures 2012
20.01.12
Not long got back from Nottingham and the New Adventures Web Conference which was put on by Simon Collison aka @colly. This was really my first big web conference. It was a chance to a) listen to some inspiring speakers and b) finally get to say hello face to face with people I’ve got to know on Twitter over the [...]
A plan of sorts
03.01.12
This year is all about improving what I have. I made the decision after looking at various jobs advertised online. Sure I can build templates and make them look good but I have holes I want to fill. Starting this week, I began getting to know Javascript. Being able to do some jQuery is fine but I’m seeing more and [...]
Year review
24.12.11
The year is at an end. It’s my first full year as a freelancer and it’s been very eventful both work and personal wise. So what have I learnt, what are my standout moments? 1. Responsive design. This year I started to use media queries. I’d heard a bit about them and I’ll be honest, was very perplexed by it. [...]
A matter of courtesy
12.12.11
I’ve been thinking about talking about this for a while. It’s not a big deal as such but I think its one of the factors why there is at times a few bad things said about people. Communication. Is it me or are people just really bad at it? Twitter, emails, you name it. People seem to not bother anymore. [...]
Hide and show WordPress post categories
03.12.11
Of late, I’ve been doing this more than anything else in WordPress. It took me a while to figure it out as there seems to be various ways of doing it or it certainly looks that way. Some complicated and some long winded. But finally I have something that allows me to hide and show what ever category I want [...]
Freelance – Love / Hate
28.11.11
I saw a tweet today about how working freelance is the Holy Grail. This is how I feel about it. I’ve been freelance now for over a year. I love it and hate it at the same time. I’ve been lucky in that I have worked on some big projects so the need to be actively searching for work wasn’t [...]
Responsive BBC
21.11.11
Nice to see today that BBC are going responsive (that clever stuff that happens when you resize your browser. Go on, try it!). They have set up a blog blog.responsivenews.co.uk/ and somebody out there on the interwebs spotted this responsivenews.co.uk/news. The BBC site is lovely and this is a great step forward added with the new homepage currently being trialed [...]
What? No portfolio?
19.11.11
Since launching the new site, I’ve had a few people question why there was no portfolio or links to work that I have done on the site. It is something I pondered for a while when doing the site. I planned to do something but felt it needed thinking through. There are two phases to my career. The employed phase [...]
WordPress post excerpt on a static homepage?
18.11.11
My homepage isn’t a blog but I wanted to display the most recent post to hook people in. After much searching, I came across the following code. Now I’m not a PHP developer, I know very little so if you can improve on the code, please comment. <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?> <?php query_posts(‘category_name=standard&showposts=1′); ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); [...]