Why do I need a responsive website – simple, user experience! The single biggest reason for having a responsive website is to create a better user experience. Mobile users and tablet users browse the web in a different way and the experience of using your website should be treated differently, Mobile users are more likely going […]
Ok I know this sounds like a dumb article to write but it still amazes me how little website owners know and understand. It’s ok for developers and designers to know all this stuff but there are some people out there that just don’t get it and it’s nothing to be ashamed of, it can […]
Being one of the most popular content publishing platforms available today WordPress has certainly come a long way since the early days of blogging. I myself have started an in-house project called the “Job Book” which allows us to track all the current work going through Square One. This includes job details such as what’s […]
First of all lets explain what UI and UX is. UI is User Interface and UX is User Experience and one without the other is just an impossibility really! Consider the body and the mind. The body’s User Interface are senses; touch, smell, seeing, listening and taste. The body’s User Experience is the mind and […]
During the development of the new Square One website I wanted to replicate the way Dribbble lets you paginate through shots. If you checkout a user on Dribbble there are two shots or thumbnails listed on the right hand side that will paginate the previous or next shot uploaded by the user. So I started […]
Ever wondered why your web designer let you down? Let’s take a few steps back first… So you found a web designer or a consultant and you’ve spoken to them about the brief, you might have even put a documented brief together and the project is underway, you can tick that off your list of things […]
Here are 5 creative portfolio websites that I’m actually quite jealous of, there are some very talented designers out there and this is my little tribute to them and their ability. Freshfolio is a sweet little horizontal scrolling website with quirky functionality like the slider that helps to scroll through items. This site has some nice […]
Here’s a little WordPress security tip that will protect your WordPress site even if the administration area is breeched. This will also prevent the administrator from hacking the code in the theme or any of the plugins, this is something you wouldn’t want them to do for various reasons but mainly because, from a development […]
WordPress needs upgrading because a bug has been fixed or some new features have been release oh, and there’s that favourite plugin you use and you’ve installed it across multiple sites but you can’t actually remember which site it’s on…? Can you imagine having to log in to over 100 sites just to upgrade a […]
Do you know how to crop an image with a CSS class? Let me show you how I would do it. Using CSS to crop an image is not a new thing but perhaps not common knowledge. With the use of the Positioning and Overflow properties it can be easy to achieve – using relative […]
