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Quick Tip #3 - Writing your own ‘is_page’ function similar to the one in WordPress
Posted by Benjamin Reid in Quick Tips, WordPress
Posted by Benjamin Reid in Quick Tips, WordPress
After building several WordPress sites lately, I’ve been getting used to writing it’s common, but useful functions to do various different things. I’ve now come to write new sites that don’t use WordPress and I miss those functions! So I’ve created my own version of the is_page function among others. View the is_page function in [...]
Posted by Benjamin Reid in CSS, Design, Web Design, jQuery
Twitter has absolutely exploded over the past few months, it’s all over the radio and TV; even some ‘celebrities’ can’t get enough of Twitter - yes I am refferring to Ashton Kutcher.
With a lot of social experiments like this you need and should want to make it your own, by using a custom Twitter badge. [...]
Posted by Benjamin Reid in CSS, jQuery

With the recent popularity of multiple column layouts, and constantly changing content that can alter the height of a column from minute to minute - it has become a bit of a mess trying to make everything look nice and balanced. So here’s how to use jQuery to make it real simple.
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I’m a regular commenter over at the Official EU PS Forum and one day a topic cropped up to create a blog for the EU PS3 community. Since that moment the blog has come to life with user input coming from all over, competitions and some rich content coming from developers. It also has a nifty XMB [...]
This was my cocoon site and the site you’re on now is the butterfly. I created this site as sort of experiment, trying out SQL with my own comments system and admin area. Unfortunately I think I lost direction with it and it’s been great to learn from the mistakes I made, which has ultimately lead to [...]
Far From Worries is an aptly named Thai retreat in the city of Hua Hin. The website was designed to show off the boutique house in all it’s glory. I added in some sleek galleries so people can really explore the destination before they get there.
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Atomised is a band rocking out of Cambridge. I put together this site to showcase their latest tracks and tour dates, with a simple but slick UI and music player added in to boot. The photography in the background done by Andrew Ashworth (Atomised’s lead vocalist) himself and they make a real impact on the [...]