Recently, I’ve noticed when I’ve been administrating my blog, my WordPress dashboard has become awfully slow, and I mean slow. The loading of the dashboard was like dial up speeds and im on a 2 MB broadband connection (Soon to be 10 MB) so it was a joke really. So I went hunting for some [...]
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Design Elements, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugins that could help improve your posts and content
WordPress is a powerful platform which goes down a treat with bloggers and publishers, and thanks to it’s brilliant community, WordPress has something called plugins which can extend the functionality of a WordPress website. There are so many different plugins written by community members that perform unique tasks, whether be to extend the functions of [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, IE Hacks
IE6 Browser Warning Message Using Conditional comments
Recently I’ve been talking about Internet Explorer 6 and how support for it is slowly dropping, and soon we will see it disappear for good, but there are still people that use this browser, whether it by choice or that they are forced to, you have to keep in mind that people will view your [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, Layouts
Multi Columned Layouts in CSS3
It’s been a while since my last CSS3 post/tutorial but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been following the development of CSS3. I have been looking at some of the newer features that have recently been implemented and one that’s caught my eye is the multi column layout module. You can already guess what this module [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, Techniques
Margin and Padding Shorthand
One of the most common attributes in CSS are margin and padding, while there use isn’t that big it certainly helps a website’s content look clean and spaced out. Margins create certain amounts of spacing between almost anything on a webpage and can be used to seperate divs. Padding of course is most commonly used [...]
Design Elements, WordPress
WordPress Quick Tip: Getting WordPress to permantly save your FTP Information
Following my last little article on WordPress plugins I can’t live without, it made me remember something I’d done recently to my WordPress installation. If your a WordPress user which runs WordPress on a server rather than a wordpress.com hosted account then you’ll understand that each time you install or remove a plugin you have [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, Menus
Creating a Tabbed Navigation menu with under tab descriptions
Well in this tutorial you will learn how to create a tabbed navigation menu, complete with a under tab description feature, which when you hover on a certain tab, a description will appear below the navigation bar, I’ve seen a few of these around, but most of them use javascript when really you don’t need [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, Menus
Creating a Drop Down Navigation Menu
Every tutorial I’ve done on navigation bars or menu’s has been the normal one level navigation bar, but when you build a website you may feel the need to create sub categories, for example my blog houses various tutorials which are stored in categories, I have a drop down navigation bar on the main link, [...]
CSS Techniques, Design Elements, Techniques
The Shadow Effect in CSS3
Shadow in website design is something that can be achieved by using CSS and images, to achieve shadow in CSS2 you would use images and positioning, it can be achieved but it usually means that you have to create multiple divs. But another one of the exciting new attributes in CSS3 is box-shadow which allows [...]