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• New Year's resolutions for web designers and developers

  03 January 2008 by Clive Walker

  I don't usually make New Year resolutions but this year I have made a few freelance web design/development ones for myself.

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• Wrap text with CSS Text Wrapper

  20 December 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS Text Wrapper is a new tool that helps you create the CSS required to wrap text into unusual shapes.

• Podcasts for web designers and developers

  04 December 2007 by Clive Walker

  I recently bought myself an iPod and, apart from the general all-round goodness of the iTunes experience, have discovered some entertaining and informative podcasts.

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• CSS attribute selectors

  14 November 2007 by Clive Walker

  There are some relatively under-used CSS techniques and one of these is the use of attribute selectors.

• Blog software comparison, WordPress v Textpattern

  07 November 2007 by Clive Walker

  I have been using Textpattern as blog software and as a website content management system (CMS) for a few years now but my colleague (who shall remain nameless) is a bit of a WordPress fan. We each argued the case for our favourite but both systems seemed to have advantages and disadvantages depending on the website scenario. In actual fact, neither of us has used the other software ‘in anger’ so-to-speak. Until now that is.

• Creating specific page styles with CSS

  31 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I was asked if it was possible to create individual page styles using CSS. In this case, the same style sheet would be used but there would be a specific style rule for page x compared with page y. For example, you may want to have a different background image for your home page compared to your ‘product’ pages. Perhaps the home page has a ‘blue theme’ and the product pages are ‘color coded’ with a different colour…

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• Jeremy Keith knows a lot about Irish traditional music

  11 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  The last £5 App meeting in Brighton featured web developer Jeremy Keith talking about his website The Session. At least, that’s what I thought…

• Websites for freelancers

  10 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  I try and keep up with quite a few websites by subscribing to their RSS feeds. Recently, I have discovered a couple of websites that are aimed primarily at freelancers/web workers.

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• SEO copywriting techniques

  02 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  David Rosam from Web Positioning Centre gave an interesting presentation about SEO copywriting at last night’s Skillswap in Brighton. Key points from the presentation…

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• CSS sprite generator

  28 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS background image position properties allow the use of one 'master' image that contains multiple component images instead of separate images. The technique is known as CSS Sprites.