I recently configured my site for mobile consumption, by using the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin along with the Carrington Mobile 1.0.2 theme. I noticed when I bookmarked my site using the iPhone that the home screen icon as missing. Today Im going to run through how to create and setup the home icon for your website.Create the iconYou will need to produce an image in PNG format that:Measures 57 x 57 pixels, with square corners the (if the image measures other than

I recently had the need for some client side form validation and happened to find the jQuery Ketchup plugin. Its a simple and flexible plugin that can be modified and styled for your own needs, plugin modifications are encouraged although the out of the box code will work just fine for your basic needs. Youll need to download the plugin files to get started. once download follow these simple steps to implement it into your application. Step 1include the files in the plugin as &#

A quick search on Google for the term Social Media currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet was Web 2.0, even then people were quick to chime in with there 10 pence worth and were happy to give you their opinion on the next best thing on the internet. This unfortunate movement also bought with it a hell of a lot of ...

Whilst working on my most recent project We deliver, I had the need for a simple logo that wasnt overly fussy but still slick contemporary and simple to design. I thought Id put the design stages together into a short blog post explaining the simple technique.The most important part of typographical logo design in my view is the font. A great free resource for fonts is DaFont.com, in fact this is where I found both of these fonts. the main font for the logo is ...

Ive been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through to development. The site is a silly idea based on a simple delivery website with the twist of allowing users to deliver their precious package by an animal of their choice, much like we did in the war with carrier pigeons. I started by w

Ive recently been working on a large project that required a lot of JSONP encoding and parsing. To be honest its been a bit of a nightmare because of one simple problem. the formating that JSON spits out onto the page is non-existant its like a printing out a PHP array and viewing it in your web browser, however with an array you can either view the page source and see the formating or simple print_r($array); within pre tags which will format the array visually ...

Ive never really got the hang of PHP frameworks and have tended to use my own custom built CMS but even with this I still find myself writing the same code over and over again. In the past Ive dabbled with CakePHP and the Zend Framework and not really got very far, so a few days ago I downloaded CodeIgniter. Although Im extremely new to this I was pretty blown away by the simplicity of setting things up and getting an actual webpage that processes ...

Is your site reaching audiences that would probably rather content in their native language? well theres a simple solution which models itself on the popular social sharing site AddThis. TranslateThis developed by Jon Raasch, a front-end web programmer from Portland, OR is a very easy to implement translation solution that uses the Google Language API and AJAX to translate your page content on the fly.Why is it good?It has several advantages over using the Google translate widget

I was set a challenge last week to complete a Rubiks cube after tinkering with one by a colleagues desk and managing to get a complete line of matching colours with little effort. In the past ive never fully understood the concept and complexity of how to complete this popular 80s puzzle. However the same way as a programmer I work out the right way to complete a coding issue by using a set of pointers and algorithms, the same is applies to completing the ...

Ive come across quite a few sites that explain how to create flexible CSS3 buttons but ive never really spent the time to implement one until i found a great little write up courtesy of the guys over at the Zurb blog who have a fantastic post on creating CSS3 buttons. So ive taken their example and tweaked it to fit my needs. Its worth noting that if your using Internet explorer youre not going to see all these effects as IE still doesnt support ...

I wrote a post mid last year about protecting your site images from being hotlinked as I found a site that had word for word scrapped one of my blog posts, you can see the post here, and I really wanted to go back to this and run over a few more things the .htaccess file is useful for. I mainly use the .htaccess file to rewrite URIs for example http://mysite.com/site/pages/contact.php would be accessed by visiting http://mysite.com/

Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if theyre accepting new submissions as Id like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldnt help but notice the browse by community section at the top of the page. Clicking the button reveals a section that contains a list of category names. I thought this would be a good example to base this post on, and to show how simple it is to achieve this effect. Ive ...

When I first started using jQuery to make AJAX requests event delegation always caught me out as I never understood what it was or how to use it. If youre manipulating the DOM you will surely come across the problem of when you dynamically add an element to a page you cant just go and add an event handler to this new element and expect it to work. For instance say I have a list item which is clickable with the aid of a click ...

As I was traveling home from work tonight reading the London Evening Standard, as I usually do, I couldn't help but notice the headline: "At 25, I'm not past it at work, I'm 'before it." This got me thinking about being a young developer in a fiercely competitive sector and ...

Planning a project thoroughly is often more important than the design, app or site. If a project is badly planned and organised then your heading for a disaster. Wireframing is usually one of the first steps to really mapping out your user flows, and is a place where all the ...

If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key points that will put you in good stead to ...

As a designer it's usually quite hard to get constructive feedback on a design. All the people I know are either friends or relatives who only say, 'Yeah that looks good', or 'Oh I like that'. Fivesecondtest.com aims to fix this problem by allowing you to upload any design and ...

"Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework" shows you how to use the powerful Zend Framework to build websites with amazing speed and efficiency. Embracing a teaching strategy of learning by doing, showing you how to build website features you'll actually want to use within your own websites. Among other ...

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Google Analytics is great to tracking your site traffic. I started out using Statcounter.com to track my site visits, but over the years i've wanted more information so I switched over to using Google Analytics. Google provides an excellent dashboard to monitor and dig into your sites traffic and drill ...

I recently revamped my portfolio as it was looking dreary and completely uninspiring, I wanted to present my work in a way that was both easy to navigate, easy to maintain and most importantly looked smart and un-cluttered. When I was brainstorming for ideas, I initially thought I would break ...

I've had a few pagination scripts over the years but I thought i'd share the one that i'm currently using as it's a useful script to have in your toolbox. As a developer you'll soon find a need to paginate data when displaying contents from the database, and rather than ...

I stumbled across this pretty useful jQuery Plugin the other day that i though some of you would appreciate. It was written by Jeremy Martin a few years back. The plugin solves a big problem in that, if you have too much text you can not truncate it, or split ...

There are some great JavaScript graph libraries out there and one that's recently come to my attention is Highcharts.com which is compatible with both the jQuery and Mootools frameworks. To get started point your browser here where you can download all the files you need including examples. Highcharts features ...

As the title describes we're going to look at making cross domain ajax requests using JSONP I'm also going to show you how to get data from a MySQL database and encode it into a JSON string which can be parsed using JavaScript. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and ...