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Recently I started working on my latest (secret) project. It will be the biggest website I have ever tried to build, and I will be doing it from scratch using Ruby on Rails. From the start it was clear that I would need to be doing some sort of testing during this project to ensure […]

My latest project was my most complex Wordpress development yet. Rather than start with an existing template and customise it to meet my needs I actually started a new template from scratch. I wanted to do this so I could learn about more about the way Wordpress worked at it meant that the included […]

Everyone knows that one of the biggest joys of Mint is checking your stats every 3 seconds. But what happens if you’re on the bus? At your Aunties house? Stuck in a queue? Little Flutter solves this problem giving you a little chunk of minty goodness, anywhere, viewable using any mobile browser.

Web standards are here to stay, and with this comes the need for semantic markup. One of the main items of any website is the navigation, in essence a list of links, so it is only right that they should be marked up with a lovely unordered list. Every site I work on now has […]

I like to keep my CSS files nice and organised. I tend to create a header on each CSS document with some basic info on who created the file, when and what site it is for, kind of Wordpress theme style. I also like to keep each section of the CSS, be it navigation, structure, […]