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. (more…)

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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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. (more…)

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 (more…)

So I have finally decided that my blog users deserve a little something for visiting my site so I have created a new simple design which should be pleasing on the eyes and simple to use.

Although I am a website designer and developer the focus of this blog isn’t aimed at that! Instead it is aimed at my entire life and the things that interest me along with several tutorials on certain things I see as important. To be honest, I don’t really have a lot of free time to post on here but I will post what I can, when I can.