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Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose

I Feel Good. I just got my badself a ticket to see the Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother Number One, James Brown, at Wolverhampton Civic (yes, playing in Wolverhampton) in June. Front row seats too (at least I hope that’s what Row …


Skimor.co.uk

Skimor.co.uk promotes a ski apartment available for hire throughout the year in Morzine, France.

The aim of the Skimor site was to give the visitor up-front information about the apartment, as well as means of viewing available bookings and finding out background information about the area through useful external links.

The build …


The Beat

The Beat is an on-going project with my colleague, Sean McGahey, to produce a showcase for new and exciting writers, poets and artists. The site is constantly evolving to include reviews and interviews.

The original incarnation was hand-built (including the Content Management System), but I have recently moved it over to …


Moving Over to WordPress

During this recent (and still on-going) re-design, I decided to start looking for a decent Content Management System to replace my self-built scripts that had previously been powering the site’s backend. I had originally thought that by building my own CMS, I would be able to get exactly what I …


Large First Character With CSS

Style a large first character in a paragraph with CSS.


CSS Map

Use CSS to produce a clickable world map (broken up by continent), which is semantic and degrades gracefully in browsers without CSS support.


Create PHP Thumbnails On The Fly

A method for creating photo thumbnails on-the-fly with a bit of PHP, the GD Library, and code nicked from a variety of sources.