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14 NOV 2011

Using the Next Gen Gallery WordPress Plugin

Wordpress No Comments

I’ve been building websites for actors in wordpress for a number of years now and nearly every website I build involves a gallery. I’ve taken to using the Next Gen Gallery plugin in conjunction with fancybox.

9 SEP 2011

Highlighting in WordPress Menus, current pages and parent pages

Web Design,Wordpress No Comments

This is another post written because I was struggling for a while with an issue, so I thought I would post my solution here. Often on a WordPress site you want to have a menu that highlights the current page. Assuming you are using the WordPress custom menus, then WordPress is smart enough to add classes to [...]

9 SEP 2011

Using less.js with WordPress

Web Design,Wordpress 2 Comments

Over the last few weeks I have been reading more and more about speeding up your workflow by using augmented CSS. For those of you not familiar with LESS, or {less} as its branding suggests, it is a ‘Dynamic stylesheet language’. Allowing you to use variables, mixins, operations and functions with in your CSS. There [...]

24 MAR 2011

Do you know the core of your small business?

Internet Marketing,Opinion,Small Business Marketing No Comments

I read a blog post today, it was a few years old and I just happened to stumble across it, but it hit me as quite profound. Something that could be applied to all aspects of life and particularly to small business. The blog post was by Merlin Mann, over at Kung fu Grippe. If you [...]