This is Day 20 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 19’s post here. I spent yesterday afternoon at the Game Masters exhibition at Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland. It’s a touring exhibition with over 100 games to play from early arcade games to the present day. A range of game designers are represented, […]
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5 quotes from top web designers to inspire you
This is Day 19 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 18’s post here. Today I trawled the web for inspiring quotes from some big names in the web design industry. Enjoy! As good advertising comes from the product, and good filmmaking begins with a riveting story, good web design starts with content. […]
WordPress Page Builders Compared
This is Day 18 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 17’s post here. There are now many page builder plugins for WordPress, which allow you to construct elaborate page layouts in a drag and drop manner. So why use one, and which one is right for you? Why use a WordPress […]
What is a WordPress Shortcode, and How Are They Useful?
This is Day 17 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 16’s post here. What is a shortcode? A WordPress shortcode – not to be confused with shortbread – is a shorthand version of a piece of code. They’re written to allow users to add functions to WordPress sites in a quick way, without […]
CSS Puns – My Collection
This is Day 16 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 15’s post here. This post is inspired by Saijo George’s site, CSS Puns, a jokey collection of CSS rules that may bear some resemblance to real life. Check out the original post above and my versions below. #driver .uk { float: left; […]
10 Useful Sites To Help You When Starting a Blog – Or Continuing Blogging
Updated 30 June 2020. This is Day 15 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 14’s post here. If you’re starting a blog, or even if you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s helpful to read about what others have done. You might have questions like: How can I set up a blog? How do […]
The LinkedIn app vs website experience
Updated 12 June 2019. This article is quite out of date now, and LinkedIn’s site and its apps have been updated considerably in that time. I’ve left it up for reference. This is Day 14 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 13’s post here. LinkedIn is a social network aimed at the […]
An A-Z of Web Design
This is Day 13 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 12’s post here. For today’s post, I’ve decided to put together an A-Z of web design, as there’s are a lot of jargon and acronyms used in this field. This is my attempt in explaining some of these to the layman. A […]
7 Random Facts about the World Wide Web
This is Day 12 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 11’s post here. Today I’ve decided to have a shot at an infographic. This is inspired by a post from the Pridham Group, Website Design – How Far We’ve Come. 7 Random Facts About the World Wide Web, the text version 1. […]
WordPress.com or WordPress.org – what’s the difference?
This is Day 11 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 10’s post here. When setting up a website, many people will turn to WordPress due to its popularity and ease of use. But it’s easy for people to get confused by the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. So what’s the difference, and […]