Category iPhone
Posted Mar 23rd
By Pete
In this article I will be briefly showing you the basics to creating an iphone microsite separate to your main website.
Why make an iPhone microsite?
Mobile technology is ever increasing and a lot more people spend time browsing the internet when they are travelling / away from their main computer. If you want to cater and impress these people you need to show the content differently to suit their mobile device.
What I will be showing you today, is not how to optimise and style your entire website for iPhone usage, but rather to detect if a visitor is on an iPhone device, and if so, redirect them to a different smaller and faster loading site for them to see.
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Category Design
Posted Mar 9th
By Pete
15 Examples of stunning css and web design
Below are a few great examples of the direction the web is taking these days. I’ve just picked a few of my top bookmarks lately, so if you’re following me on delicious, then apologies as you may have seen a few of these already!
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Last night during the American Oscar’s Apple revealed their new iPad commercial, the first ad for the revolutionary device.
The ad is a little more like the good old iPod ads with fresh music etc, but I think it’s just a bit too fast paced. I don’t understand what any app does from looking at this advert, just that they all look cool and you move them with your fingers. But this is something to be excited about! And look forward to your first time using one.
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So what is WPtouch?
WPtouch is a plugin built for wordpress by the great guys over at bravenewcode. These guys have made quite a few great wordpress plugins, including the fantastic wordtwit which allows you to tweet everytime a new blog entry is posted.
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Category jQuery
Posted Feb 27th
By Pete
In this short tutorial, I will be showing you how to create a jQuery scrolling menu, using the ScrollTo jQuery Plugin.
This is my first time writing a jQuery script and I have to say I’ve found it easy enough! Really useful tool and fantastic as a designer to be able to do this without using flash.
Just before I get to the tutorial, if your looking for a demo, or maybe you want to download the files.
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Category jQuery
Posted Feb 20th
By Pete
In this article: I’m running through 15 cool jQuery resources available to you and they’re free of charge too!
Visualize Plugin: Charts & Graphs
A fantastic plugin that lets you create graphs from html tables. Very useful for making dynamic statistics pages
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A short introduction to the journal and what I’ll be writing about in the near future.
What should you expect to see around here?
Well hopefully I’ll get a new website design / freelance related article posted up once or twice a week just going over current issues that us folks need to know about. Along with that I will be posting up about some of the projects I’m working on and just general issues I’m finding through learning a bit more about php, codeigniter & jQuery.
As you may already know I’m a Belfast man at heart and will be posting up some articles relating to that; and the poor conditions us Belfast website designers are subjected to.
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