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 thought I would make a general post about all the unimportant things happening around the world before moving on to information regarding future postings. If you don’t care about Prison Break, Dexter or TV in general then you may aswell hit the jump and scroll towards the end of this post.

When I am not working i like to put my feet up and either spend time with my family, play some Xbox 360 or watch some TV.

I watch quite a few american shows religiously as I am sure many of you do too. Most notably Prison Break and Dexter. If you havent seen either show yet then you really should. Prison Break is on its 4th series right now and is just as fresh as it’s first whilst Dexter is on its 3rd series. What are they? (more…)

If you are a website designer then chances are you have created your latest website and submitted it into the various CSS showcase websites out there such as Best Web Gallery.

The main purpose of these websites I feel is to offer inspiration for designers and wannabe designers and some DO offer great resources. I visit these sites daily as a rule and check out the latest designs by companies or freelancers and lately have noticed that a lot of these sites are starting to add anything with a bit of CSS into the gallery. (more…)