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Websites to help with Colour Schemes

Colour schemes are important when creating a large number of things from websites to business cards and can be costly to change later on, that’s why it important to get it right at the start. Why not help out your Creative Agency by selecting a colour scheme you like via these free to use online [...]


Show and hide content with Jquery

a easy to implement jQuery show/hide plugin for websites, all you need to do is add the code to your head & then place a div with the correct class around the content and the plugin does the rest! http://rpardz.com/blog/show-hide-content-jquery-tutorial/


Convert between em,px, pt and % for CSS fonts

Points Pixels Ems Percent 6pt 8px 0.5em 50% 7pt 9px 0.55em 55% 7.5pt 10px 0.625em 62.5% 8pt 11px 0.7em 70% 9pt 12px 0.75em 75% 10pt 13px 0.8em 80% 10.5pt 14px 0.875em 87.5% 11pt 15px 0.95em 95% 12pt 16px 1em 100% 13pt 17px 1.05em 105% 13.5pt 18px 1.125em 112.5% 14pt 19px 1.2em 120% 14.5pt 20px 1.25em [...]


HTML form – remove default values on click / focus

I found this handy little bit of javascript while creating a HTML form, 1 <input type="text" value="Email Address" name="email" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Email Address';}"  onfocus="if (this.value == 'Email Address') {this.value = '';}" /> what it does is when a user clicks on the field it will remove the default value – this [...]


Getting images ready for use on the web

Introduction Images are fundamental to the modern web and they are used on nearly every single website you visit however it is important that images are saved correctly to make sure they will work correctly on the web. Preparing images for use on the web is easy and possible to do with freely available tools [...]


Firefox spell check single text lines

Firefox has a built in spell checker that simply put is a life saver but it has one problem – it does not work on single line text input fields! this problem is easily fixed: http://tech.chandrahasa.com/2010/06/07/firefox-spell-check-single-line-fields/ Bring up your about:config page. You can do this by typing “about:config” in your address bar and clicking on [...]


Website SEO with WordPress

What is SEO? Search engine optimization is vital for the success of websites of all sizes as it directly affects the number of visitors the website will receive from search engines such as google. Every website should have a SEO strategy in place to ensure that everything possible is being done to increase visitor numbers [...]


WordPress admin bar not displaying correctly?

after updating to wordpress 3.1 with its new admin bar it has not shown up correctly on this site, after looking at other peoples solutions i still could not fix the issue so i have overwritten it with the CSS to force the menu up by 57px 1 2 3 4 #wp-admin-bar-wp-logo {display:none;} .ab-top-menu { [...]


Creating a functionality plugin for WordPress

I have read a few interesting articles on creating a plugin for adding additional functionality to wordpress websites for dealing with shortcodes etc, the idea behind it is when you change the theme of the website you can simply install the plugin and not have to extract informaiton from the functions.php file in addition to [...]