Monthly Archives: August 2009

A beginner’s guide on how to create your first wordpress site

Beginners guide to WordPress

This is abit of a quick post but without knowing this I wouldn’t have been able to create my first WordPress site so successfully.  If you have never used WordPress before and you are fairly new to CSS then creating a site by this method can be difficult, hopefully this post will help.

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The dark side and Google

The dark side of Google

In the last ten years Google has moved from humble search engine to dominant web superpower and with no sign of easing up, but are they running the risk of becoming the new Microsoft which for the early part of this decade were hated.  Surely Google can’t move to the dark side and become the new un-stoppable machine?

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Keep your site graceful and enhanced

Keep your site graceful and enhanced

‘Graceful degradation’ and ‘progressive enhancement’ are terms that have crept into the web design world and I’ll admit that initially I didn’t know what they were or how they would affect the way I approach a design job, but after reading a few articles online and listening to a recent talk from Elliot Jay Stocks it proved to not just be a buzz phrase but how we as web designer should serve our users, so here is my layman’s take on both these approaches.

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