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When you’re building a website one of the most important steps is the building of the templates. Building static templates is almost always quicker than building integrated templates such as WordPress, Django or Rails. One of the biggest issues with using...

Where to put the javascript? Unless it’s essential for it to be in the head of the HTML document, place all javascript just before the closing body tag of a page. What’s essential for the head? That can vary from project to project but a rule of thumb w...

This is my documentation for a new project. I’m writing it here rather than inside a repository so that it can exist across multiple projects. This will eventually be duplicated on to a markdown document for posterity! Project structure As the project is...

A few weeks ago I decided to make an iOS game. I’ve toyed with the idea for a long time, and tried a few times, but never actually made something that was fun enough and worked properly — consequently, I’ve never actually made a game from start to finish. ...

Turning any project in to a Version controlled project is really simple and should be one of the first steps in any project workflow. By the time you realise that you need a version controlled file, it’s usually too late – whether you have accidentally ove...

There are a few ways of writing css. For consistency, we will adopt only one naming convention. This is lowercase and hyphen separated. It is the most readable and fits well with other CSS methodologies that are covered below. Yes No Specificity Keep y...

When you are developing on WordPress sites it's always quicker to work on a local machine/development server. It's essential to work from the same data as the live site so you can work effectively as possible so taking a copy of the live database and insta...

This is a simple timer, using Swift....

calc() is a modern css function that allows you to do basic maths in a css file. You can use it to make semi fluid layouts with great ease. This means that you can have layouts with 1 fixed width column (or more) and the rest fluid. It doesn't just stop at...

Since I wrote my last post on creating a Chrome extension , there have been a few changes to how the extensions are built - mainly that the manifest version has changed to version 2. The original post is still fine, but there are a few tweaks needed. This ...

I've been looking for a good solution for Arabic web fonts for while now and have been hitting my head against the wall with the lack of options available to me or the cost of buying a font and hosting it myself. Just as I was contemplating making my own ...