Church website redesign and build
Wallingford Baptist Church’s design brief was:
- Being welcoming to all
- Dispelling negative images of Christians as boring, judgmental or killjoys
- Showing how the church is a community and family
- Vibe: Friendly, warm, welcoming and vibrant
- Fit in with the CMS they had already signed up too
The design was based around the words warm and welcoming and straight away I went into colour brain storming trying out different colour groups I settled on the yellow and browns you see in the final design... More >>
08.05.09 Comments (1) 
Updating conditional comments for IE8
CSS breaking in IE8? - have you checked your conditional comments?
If you don't know what conditional comments are Jump to the explanaition. If you do and you use them in your site and your CSS is getting messed up in IE8 you might want to check any you have. When I opened redwood.com in IE8 the top navigation was very broken and this was down to me controlling where the end "</a>" was being positioned for ie using conditional comments... More >>
22.04.09 Comments (0)
Use Google Maps API to mark a location or address
This basic tutorial will take you through the steps you need to embed Goggle maps API on your site and use a marker to point out your location and then show an info window with your address and a link to get directions with your location already filled out, helping out your users as much as you can. View the working example of what you can have on your site to see how this will look and work at the end of the tutorial... More >>
08.04.09 Comments (0)
Homepage Redesign - Simplifying users choice
Clean design directing users to three main areas and highlighting a few "spotlights".
After installing Google Analytics we discovered users where not following any particular path after hitting the Redwood homepage. We decided to redesign the site cutting down the amount of options shown to users on the home page and making the site easier to navigate. The design above was approved and went live last year with great success and improved average time on site... More >>
01.04.09 Comments (0)
Website Design for a German Hotel
CSS breaking in IE8? - have you checked your conditional comments?
If you don't know what conditional comments are Jump to the explanaition. If you do and you use them in your site and your CSS is getting messed up in IE8 you might want to check any you have. When I opened redwood.com in IE8 the top navigation was very broken and this was down to me controlling where the end "</a>" was being positioned for ie using conditionalMore >>
27.03.09 Comments (1)
Creating an XML RSS feed with PHP.
Using this PHP class you can create an RSS feed of your dynamic content very easily.
I have built the class for this site so it is focused on blog style content. I have built in XSLT support into the class. The class will print out the XML header the content and then the XML footer. I have put all the files you need into a folder: rss.zip... More >>
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