What do you install after a crash?

Click. Click. Grind. zOmg. There goes my MacBook.

It happens to the best of us. After two years my battle hardened work horse of a laptop finally croaked. Specifically, it was my hard drive that couldn’t handle the constant reading and writing from disk. (more…)

Top Five Reasons to Use MODX CMS

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. The big question I keep coming back to is why would an intermediate-level web designer want to switch from using WordPress to a CMS like MODX? Here’s a roundup of the top five reasons why I think designers would want to make the switch. (more…)

What Does the Ideal 2012 WordPress Theme Have?

In this article, through a deep analysis, i will list all the features that THE 2012 WordPress Theme should have.
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3. How Submit a WordPress Website to Google

Congratulations you have a website ready to show to the world. In this tutorial Koen and I dedicated this project to the late and great Charlie Chaplie so it’s time to submit to Google and starting getting some visitors. (more…)

2. How to Move WordPress Local to Live

Moving a WordPress site from local to live is not easy at it has a lot of steps. Luckily this video contains them all and you can hit pause after each stage so you work along side Koen and I. (more…)

10 Minimalist but Spicy Ideas For Web Design Beginners

Hello and welcome back to another post of mine. This time wanna focus my attention on those ones that just made the first little baby steps in the mysterious world of HTML-CSS-PHP coding and that would love create a simple, attractive website but they’re worried that this might require a lot of time other than a deep knowledge of the Html language. (more…)

How To Write CSS Intelligently

I love CSS, it grows every day it seems. We web designers are always hungry to push CSS to it’s limits and when we hit a limit we hack arround it and push it that bit further. This tutorial explains how to write CSS in such as way that 3000 lines of presentation precision does not get confusing and you can find what you want instantly.

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Dream Weaver Tutorial – Part 1 HTML

Known officially as Adobe Dreamweaver* (with no space), this great program has been a favourite of mine for a while now (10 years). Let me share how I use it, as a web designer, and hopefully convince the nay sayers that it is a wonderful tool for creating clean standard code.

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Dream Weaver Tutorial – Part 2 CSS

Now we have the elements in place (Dream Weaver (officially Dreamweaver) Tutorial Part 1 HTML) we are ready to style them. You can see the completed design here: We Love Dream Weaver

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Voyeurism In Running Websites

As you read this, I know where you are, what computer you are using to the size of your screen and how many colours are hitting your retina and the fact you came from Stumbleupon. I dare say I can find out what socks you are wearing.  How am I doing this? (more…)