Category Archives: Design Technique

How To Ruin A Perfectly Decent Website

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Yesterday I tweeted an article about what must be one of the worst websites in the world. It must be seen to be believed. Yet although such terrible sites exist, a far more common problem in web design is sites […]

The Golden Ratio – A Basic Intro And A Pedantic Question

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It’s cool to know that when you put together a web page design you’re still using inspiration from two and half millennia ago. Yes, that blog you’re coding is drawing on the principles that went into the design of the […]

Displaying Recent Pages (Not Posts) With WordPress

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I’ve spent some time in the last few days updating the portfolio design for the site. Each item in my portfolio is a seperate WordPress page. I wanted the portfolio index to highlight the most recent portfolio items in a […]

Simple Collapsible Content With jQuery

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Dynamically hiding and showing content within a web page adds interactivity and gives the user more control over what they want to read. Scripting can provide that collapsible functionality, but it’s also important to keep the content accessible. The flexibility […]

Correctly Using H1 Tags With WordPress

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Header tags like <h1> are important HTML structural items. They define the semantic layout of a page. The highest weight header tag, <h1>, defines the main subject of a section. Search engines value header tags when examining a web page/ […]