A Blog in Suburban Glory: Web Design Ideas and Inspiration

The original idea for the theme came from a client some months ago who wanted a horse racing site but then subsequently changed their mind. The design is now for a general purpose outdoor sports site. Permission to use the photographs has been granted by the copyright holders.

The design us...

I've been using Ben Sheldon's “shiny upload” code on a relatively busy Drupal site for a while, the idea behind which is to transform the particularly ugly node attachments box on ...

My first Drupal theme to download can be found here here and is called Clean A.

The idea behind the theme is to create a minimalist, lightweight template like any of the core themes such as Bluemarine and Garland and one ...

If you haven't read it yet then I strongly recommend that you take a look at Cameron Adams article Fancy Form Design Using CSS if you are really serious about tackling this aspect of web design.

It's...

Let us use a typical real life example as an analogy for creating a successful blog.

You move into a new flat in a different city. You spend a great deal of time picking the right flat to move into. After all, you don't want to move into a bad neighbourhood. The outside of the flat is prett...

This is a method that I use to shrink Javascript or CSS files using PHP. You don't need any knowledge of PHP to try this out as you can just cut'n'paste the required code.

I've used it quite a few times now and it will compress your file by around 50%. Which, if your CSS file is over 1,000 ...

Adobe's Dreamweaver has been in commercial use for over ten years now and while other's have come and gone Dreamweaver's development and popularity has continued.

As a piece of software it is widely used in professional web design circles, but nevertheless many designers openly discourage i...

There are dozens if not hundreds of different Content Management Systems (CMS) in existence. Many of these are free to use and are built using Open Source principles; that is, many different developers contributor their time and expertise to the particular project for free and the code is there for all to use....

I'm just working on a script at the moment that allows users to submit a blog URL and the blog RSS feed.

To check whether the submitted URL is a properly formatted address I use FILTER_VALIDATE_URL but there is no such filter function for RSS feeds.

So after putting on m...

This guide is not written for an experienced webmaster, but is instead aimed at a layman. Rather than getting bogged down in the intricacies of writing code to positively influence search engines, this article will take a step back from that and concentrate on the history of this discipline as well as some the...