A while back, a very good friend of mine (@EmmaWebsdale) was in the process of putting her first novel together named Alluro (which she’s now drawing towards finishing up!). I just couldn’t resist offering to conjure up a website together for her to help promote the book. I knew it would give me the chance [...]

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I coded up this clean WordPress theme for @callumchapman (it was designed by Callum) to give him his first customised theme for his blog, exclusive to Circlebox Creative. The theme includes a customised author page, this displays their profile along with their posts.

Testimonial: “Ben offered great services at a great price I couldn’t refuse. He [...]

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Everyone knows (or should know) what a favicon is, you’ve probably got one on your website and if you haven’t, you should. They’re great for finding a particular site amongst a long list of bookmarks and I for one have a lot of bookmarks.
Recently though you’ve been able to add websites to your iPhone/iPod Touch’s [...]

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Welcome to part four of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This 4th part covers setting up WordPress’s amazing comment system, getting your pages (pages.php) looking like the rest of your blog, setting up your dynamic highlighting nav’ and more! I’ve also provided code snippets below which would of bored you all to death explaining so [...]

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To be more precise, we’re going to look at some of the functions used in the ‘Finding’ section of jQuery’s Traversing methods. The best way to explain this, is of course, with an example. So lets start with the problem that led me to use Traversing, oh and thanks to @tweaked for prompting me to [...]

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The other day I was collecting a load sites that presented themselves and their work well to get some ideas for the redesign of my work’s website. So I’ve chosen a few which to me show something innovative, something new and how the trend of web design is going.

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Welcome to part three of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This third part introduces you to The Loop and getting your blog to work with WordPress’s main function, blogging! I’ll also step into plugins to allow you to create thumbnails for your posts.

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That’s right, I have gone mad, well no, I’m just feeling generous to you wonderful people who take it upon yourselves to read my blog. I’m giving away one copy of Espresso to one of you lucky people and getting your mits on it couldn’t be any easier but first just to clarify I’m not [...]

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Welcome to part two of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! Since last time I have come up with a design for the blog and coded it up into XHTML and CSS. Before moving onto part two I recommend that you come up with your own design and code it up too. Though if you want [...]

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Welcome to part one of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This first part covers downloading and installing a localhost called MAMP, downloading WordPress and setting up a database for it and finally, installing WordPress itself. This time around I’ll be doing screen-casts as opposed to saying do this do that, so you should be able [...]

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