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Brand identity – How far do you go?

Brand identity – How far do you go?

I have been working on many projects since my last post (I hope to start writing more) and I have been lead for one particular project that has had some questionable decisions for their brand identity. How far should you go to preserve the brand? I have worked on some websites that have done the […]

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Future of Twitter

Future of Twitter

Twitter is extremely popular but not amongst developers.  When Twitter exploded into the public domain it was not just down to what Twitter is used for but what 3rd party developers were creating with it’s API. You only have to do a quick search for Twitter apps and you will find there are many to […]

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Adding WYSIWYG Editor to StartBox Options

Adding WYSIWYG Editor to StartBox Options

I have been delving more and more into StartBox recently, in total I have built 5 sites using this excellent WordPress Framework. My latest site which will hopefully be going live very soon needed the ability to allow the user to have an options page that had a WYSIWYG Editor. Currently StartBox does not have […]

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope this year is better than the last and you are all successful in what ever you do. Best Wishes Lee

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jQuery ColorBox snippet

jQuery ColorBox snippet

For those of you using StartBox this maybe useful to you. If you enable ColorBox as per the StartBox docs it will allow you to put the CSS class “colorbox” on your images which will then make the image pop-up in a window on the page as per a light box script. You can see […]

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Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas Everyone

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. I hope next your is better than ever for you all. January will mark the 2nd year since being a Full time freelancer and it has been a great journey. Thank you all, I am looking forward to what 2011 […]

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Posting to WordPress from your phone or portable device

Posting to WordPress from your phone or portable device

Today WordPress have launched their new app for Windows 7 mobile phone: http://windowsphone.wordpress.org/ If you are running a website or blog using WordPress which many of the sites I build use, then make sure you have a look at WordPress for ios http://ios.wordpress.org/ (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) or WordPress for Android phones http://android.wordpress.org/. You […]

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Working with StartBox

Working with StartBox

If you have seen my Tweets or have read the news on here recently, then you know I have been using a WordPress framework called StartBox. I have been extremely pleased with it and Brian who is the creator of StartBox has been very helpful. I am currently working on a new website that needs […]

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New website for DAIN

New website for DAIN

The Funk House is delighted to be working with a Southampton based charity called DAIN (The Disability Advice and Information Network). The Funk House is providing the business with a new website that will allow them to edit their own content and establish an online presence for the first time. The website is due to […]

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The Funk House refresh

The Funk House refresh

I finally got around to updating the website and I chose to use StartBox from Brian Richards. It is a WordPress framework that allows me to create great WordPress websites without having to start from scratch each time. I will be writing more in detail about it soon but if you are into building websites […]

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