Hey Guys,

It’s been a good few months before I’ve posted anything, mainly because I have a new job and client work is taking up all my evenings. I still have to edit out my ums and ars quite a bit before I can publish a video unfortunately so I can’t quickly publish as I’d like.

I thought I’d write some really short posts for now instead, seen as I’m learning of tonne of new stuff.

Here is a way to finely target IE to your heart’s content in WordPress (but you could easily adapt for plain HTML). Continue reading →

My previous video about Dropbox and MAMP was about hacking around ‘old-style’ thinking where MAMP stubbornly stores SQL databases in a single place, meaning that to work on multiple computers we have to use a third party tool to force our data into Dropbox. With the announcement of Google Chromebooks, here is an approach that is the complete opposite. We don’t have to force local data on to the web because all our data lives on the web.

I started these video tutorials for those like me, who think great design and great code are not mutually exclusive. We will never aspire to write Python or Perl in a basement with Mark Zuckerberg, but kicking ass with jQuery or pulling together a WordPress theme gives us the same buzz as using the Bézier tool in Photoshop or Illustrator. Modern web design requires a specific hybrid skillset; especially if you freelance – so let’s leave our WYSIWG editors at the door and get our geek on. If you’d like to see a future tutorial covering a specific topic, let me know and I’ll try to help :-) If no one requests anything I’ll just cover the things I think … Continue reading →