Building My Fixie Pt.2 ~ Stripping

In my previous fixie build post, I introduced the idea of this simple, stripped-down incarnation of the bicycle, and my attraction to it. I’ve got hold of my ‘donor bike’ and I’m ready for some stripping action in order to … more…

23/08/10 | Cats: general | Tags: bikes, diy, fixie, howto

Even more beautiful Last.fm listening stat graphs

I’ve previously written about some rather lovely visualisations that pull data from your Last.fm account, and now here’s another to add to the list. The very clever Andrew Godwin over at Aeracode has come up with LastGraph, which “lets you … more…

23/08/10 | Cats: general, music, web | Tags: graphs, lastfm, music, stats

New CSS Reset Framework ~ Toucan CSS Reset

For yonks now I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s infinitely useful Reset Reloaded framework to bring my designs down to a standard level on which to build. I’ve just picked up a Tweet from the guys over at Smashing Magazine regarding … more…

22/08/10 | Cats: css, design, web | Tags: css, framework, reset

Styling the current_page_item tag for child pages in WordPress

During a recent WordPress theme build, I wanted to have a sidebar that permanently showed child pages with a hover state and an active state utilising the current_page_item tag as generated by WordPress. So far so good, but during testing, … more…

05/08/10 | Cats: Wordpress, css, design, web | Tags: css, problem solved, solution, wordpress

New Work ~ Swinton Insurance Deal website

Working in partnership with local digital development and online marketing agency Steer Digital, I’ve worked to redesign the Swinton Insurance Deals website. The brief was to bring a more professional, corporate look to the site, which was achieved using a … more…

27/07/10 | Cats: design, new-work, web | Tags: business, design, newbiz, web

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