Paul West's development and design articles http://www.paulwest.co.uk/ en-us While reading the article “Color: The Next Limited Resource?” on Six Revisions, I found the subject of brands buying and claiming a colour as theirs, a scary and interesting thought... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/trademarking-colours My brother and Sister were throwing a joint birthday party and needed a way to manage a guest for the party.  We looked at facebook but had issues with different groups and people not on facebook (mainly family members) and adding guest names... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/party-invitation-and-guest-list Most of us have broadband nowadays but with sites becoming more complex with the use of Ajax and JavaScript Libraries the average web page has tripled in just five years... Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/speed-up-your-site 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... Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/wbc-church-website-redesign-and-build CSS breaking in IE8? - have you checked your conditional comments? If you don't know what conditional comments are Jump to the explanaition... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/conditional-comments-and-ie8 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... Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/using-google-maps-api-to-mark-your-location-and-address Clean design directing users to three main areas and highlighting a few "spotlights"... Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/redwood-homepage-redesign Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/website-design-german-hotel Using this PHP class you can create an RSS feed of your dynamic content very easily... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/creating-an-xml-rss-feed-with-php I have been using Chrome for my general browsing in the last few months and have noticed they have no support or predefined styling for RSS feeds, IE6 also doesn't support RSS and instead both print out the raw code... Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/styling-rss-news-feeds-with-xslt How to search several columns of a MySQL table with keywords and multiple parameters The Project - Resource Center I want to centralise all of Redwood Resources on the site into one manageable place... Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/php-search-tool Useful standalone php functions I am listing a collection of PHP functions I have used over the years to organise and speed up my coding... Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/php-common-functions Keeping your code organised, clean and fast One advantage of using functions which is often overlooked, is code contained within functions is ignored until the function is called from another part in the script, which can make your script load faster... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/php-database-functions istock are running a contest called Screen Yrslef, where you design a t-shirt meeting the following requirements: have a maximum of three colours, with no gradients; single sided (front or back) and not cross garment seams, wrap or leave edges; contain at least one iStockphoto element (include file # in upload form); be submitted in the t-shirt template provided by iStockphoto; contain the iStockphoto logo. I came up with the idea for this design relatively quickly... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/screen-yrself Salesforce has an out of the box solution for generating leads from online forms called web-to-lead, this solution is very basic and in my opinion very insecure... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/salesforce-form-integration-with-php The main purpose of this project was to brush up on my photoshop skills... Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/poster-design-passion Project Requirements To build a system where staff can build and edit landing pages for webinars and events where customers could register for them plus request documents... Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/marketing-admin-system Have you ever read magazine story online? It's not easy... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/website-content-and-writing-for-the-web The reason you would want to do this is so that you can have the HTML page 'change' it's appearance automatically when someone visits your page with a particular type of device... Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/print-style-sheet