Category Archives: tutorials

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

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.

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 [...]

CSS sprites – What they are, and how to use them?

This is short article to briefly explain what sprites are and how you can implement them into you CSS designs.

Simple navigation list with CSS

Navigation can be presented in many different ways, but the most effective way is the CSS list which offers the best and most simple solution.  In this post I will demonstrate the CSS menu in its most stripped back form.

Design and build dos and don’ts

Over the years I have encountered a number of bad practices with website design and content,  usually these are requests by clients who are trying to squeeze every last penny out of their website, but sometimes it is web designers who are creating a project for themselves rather than the end user.  I understand that [...]