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I hereby swear to do my best to fill these pages with things that others may find interesting. I will discuss topics, share links, vent personal grievances and may even write a tutorial or two.

Amazing pop-up book for graphic designers

I decided that I don’t post enough about design and inspiration. I visit a lot of blogs and one of the main reasons is to get inspiration in one form or another. In light of this I thought I would share this video on youtube.
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Great tips for fixing CSS problems

I have been a bit busy with work recently so I have not posted much recently. In the process of doing lots of work I have run into lots of problems. Today I finished up on a page on the site I am working on and tested in all the usual browsers, and lo and behold Internet Explorer 6 made it look wierd.
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Online translation services.

I don’t often have need to use online translation services as the need rarely arises and when I have used them in the past they have been pretty unreliable. This morning I found myself needing to use one as my site was featured on an Italian web site about javascript.
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Lavalamp examples

Recently I have had lots of compliments and questions about the navigation used on this site so I thought I would write a bit of a tutorial about how it was done and also show some further examples of what is possible using similar techniques.
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Magento eCommerce

The fantastic looking Magento eCommerce system has recently come out of beta. Having tried osCommerce and Zen Shopping cart for a few projects I have found that customising them to make good looking eCommerce sites can be an uphill struggle to say the least!
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Site of the day for the 1st of April 2008!

I have just found out that I have been awarded site of the day on Daily Slurp. I am, obviously, really pleased with being featured. It’s a real honour to know that other people in the industry like my work!

4 bits of jQuery used on this site

This site uses the popular jQuery framework to power its javascript and I thought I would share which plugins and snippets I have used.
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DevSpanner: Tools For Web Developers

We, as in I along with my good friend Liam at lowercase, have launched a web app. We (mostly Liam, the code genius) have built a collection of tools and resources that we as web designers and developers use on a regular basis. Currently these include md5 hash encryption, UNIX timestamp conversion, email obfuscation, standard web banner sizes and social network code generation.
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