May 12th 2008
What webmasters can learn from Ocean’s Eleven.
Just watched this film (for like the tenth time), last week. And you know what? - There are definitely parallels to creating an awesome company website, and executing a precise plan of attack against three of the largest casinos in Vegas...
Daniel Ocean is released on parole after a four year ...
May 11th 2008
Preventing design theft. A few tricks of the trade.
As designers most of us have been victim at some time or other to design theft. Those little warts of the web that come along and think that it's ok to rip off your web design. So what do you do when someone steals your design? I fell victim ...
May 9th 2008
Five of the coolest twitter api applications.
I've not been bitten by the Twitter bug as of yet, I'm firmly seated in the "dont really get it" camp -that said, there seems to be plenty of interest online, plenty of dedicated followers and as this post indicates and plenty of innovative usages / startups based around the ...
May 3rd 2008
9 kick ass Open source E-commerce platforms reviewed
With e-commerce webdesign really starting to take off, its never been more important to choose a platform which suits you as a developer (i.e. one that you can support) and one that will provide your clients with the features that they need to run a successful online shop.
There are a ...
April 21st 2008
9 online portfolio tools for artists and designers
I was recently asked by a designer friend of mine if I knew of any good resources for publishing graphic design work online. The friend in question - (hi Jules - ta for the blog post inspiration) comes from a traditional print background, and not wanting to spend loads of ...
April 20th 2008
A redesign in two days? Huh? CSS just works.
Yes I know, we changed the design for the second time this year. From looking at our statistics I wasn't happy with the way the site was performing, Bounce rates were high (70 - 80%) - and I wanted to make sure that it wasn't to do with the design. ...
April 12th 2008
Web design on a budget. Six free alternatives to Dreamweaver.
As webdevelopers most of us have been born and bred on Adobe's (formerly Macromedia's) weapon of choice Dreamweaver. I have seen the various incarnations of the program through from version 3, to UltraDev (cutting my teeth with ASP), to the latest version CS3. However there are a couple of alternatives ...
April 8th 2008
CSS Naked day. Tommorow!
Some of you may or may not know that tommorow is CSS Naked day. Strip off. Pose. Enjoy. I've included some ASP code for your header file, which will easily determine whether you should be in the nude or not. Webdistortion will be naked tommorow.
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April 2nd 2008
Sending SMS Messages using 24x and VB.NET
If any of you have ever had a need for sending SMS messages, can I suggest the excellent 24x sms API.
Please find for your enjoyment a free class to do just that, for Vb.NET.
Simply set the properties and away you go. I've never been able to get Wordpress to play ...
March 20th 2008
A website checklist. 20 things to check before going live.
As developers we all know the highs of launching a new site, but how many of us have went through a step by step list checking off all the to-do items. The following is (in no particular order) what I normally go through before setting a site live.
1). Meaningful Page ...