We have seen it in the movies before right? It’s the future, The world is collapsing but one company is running things and everything belongs to that one organisation…. In the real world that company is Microsoft. Anybody following the E3 would have been unable to miss the alien technology Microsoft unleashed for the XBOX 360 known as Project Natal (Nat-all). …Read the rest of this entry »

On my usual rounds searching google for sites linking to my site I came across this site. Seems that productive dreams are “apparently” creating a site for Smashing Magazine which is an absolute blatant rip off of this very site. They even decided to try and steal my persona although not very good..!!

Makes me wonder how a company with productive in their title actually gain business. When I bought my domain, fatbastard.co.uk was already taken hence my spelling and now a supposedly creative company and (maybe) a popular magazine want to steal visitors from me by creating my doppelganger. Well, good luck with that. It takes more than just a domain name to be a popular site.

If either party would like to comment on the issue I welcome your response.

Yes, i know this movie was released an age ago but…… The ringtone has recently been re-added to my phone and i think its awesome so here it is for you to use too.
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This post aims to help you structure your entire site for search engines before and during development. This is by no means the be all and end all of SEO, Structuring or best method out there but is the personal effective method that I use.

To begin, when preparing to develop a site what steps do you take? Do you jump right in and just start coding your .psd or alternative? Maybe you just build using your coding application and use minimal graphics? Whatever method you use I will try to explain why methodical structuring can make or break your new shiny website. …Read the rest of this entry »

Quite often either I or other people are asked how to control CSS layouts using both pixels and percentages. The answer is a simple one but I will demonstrate the code needed a little more so you can better understand it. For this tutorial I will be basing the tutorial on a post I answered on Neowin.net (A forum I frequent).

Ok, so start with we want to have a main div which stretches for 80% of the browser width. Our main div will have the class .red and uses the following CSS.
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I thought I should share with you a little bug fix within Internet Explorer 6 that certainly would have had some of you pulling your hair out before now. I am of course talking about a situation where you have a floating element within IE6 that magically gains extra padding or margin without setting it.

The problem occurs when you float an element such as a div within your page with padding or margin. IE6 sees it and decides it has a passion for a fatty (no pun intended) and waves its magical MS wand. The MS spell makes the element expand with “double” the padding you wanted on it.

So what can we do to fix the issue? …Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so scientists haven’t actually stated that there is indeed a www ozone layer but at this point you are reading the post so the title’s job has been done. This post is actually about the world wide web but I am going to be focussing on how we got it into the mess it is today.

Every developer or designer at one stage is guilty of a dodgy contribution to the basement of the grand old interweb and most learn from the mistake then move on to better things. I am of course reffering to bad design, markup or use of flashing animated .gif’s.

On an average day of web browsing looking for more useless information to forget an hour later I would say that 50% + of the sites either look or work absolutely cack. A little more time spent on the finer details can make a world of difference and websites that showcase the best of the best should really do what they say on the tin and actually show the ones that function, look good and inspire others. …Read the rest of this entry »

Hey all, I have created a few more menus for you to download and use in your projects. If you would like to learn how to create these menus yourself you can refer to my recent tutorial here.

I have included the .psd, HTML & CSS files within each download to make it easier. Remember, if you use them in a project i would like to hear about it….That’s why i have a comment box …Read the rest of this entry »