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slee — September 28, 2008, 5:59 pm

Using JavaScript in your web site

Everyone loves to see funky effects and interactive elements when browsing the web.
Many of the features we see on web sites are made using JavaScript such as drag and drop features and the infamous Lightbox gallery. There are more and more JavaScript libraries to make coding even easier for developers. One of my favourites is [...]

slee — August 4, 2008, 11:23 pm

Wordpress gallery

After reading Sarah’s posts on the Wordpress gallery I thought I would have a go at using it on a site.
The gallery that is built in is OK but not my favourite gallery for Wordpress. I am not sure if they just threw it in as there us hardly any documentation, i was very glad [...]

slee — August 2, 2008, 4:22 pm

Social Behaviour on forums

A while back I began researching into forum behaviour as I help look after two forums.
I wanted to get an idea on how people use the forums and what things I might have to look out for.
I ventured on to many forums and asked 4 main questions and a general “how do you behave” to [...]

slee — July 23, 2008, 10:10 pm

Green hosting

Things have been very busy recently and I am getting much more involved with sites that are “green”. This has led me to look for a green hosting company.

slee — July 22, 2008, 8:33 pm

CMS or Bespoke web site builds?

Something I have been pondering over for a while now is the choice of how to build a web site.
Do you always go for a CMS solution and build from there or do you just build from scratch using any code you have used before as a library or do you mix and match?