Category Archives: Web development

Two new Web sites

In late October and early November I completed work on 2 new Web sites. I added them to my portfolio a week or so ago. This is my first chance to mention them on my blog. The first site completed—completed … Continue reading

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Your Web site: you want it good, or you want it Tuesday?

“You can have your Web site good/cheap/fast. Pick any two.” It’s such a cliché. And yet, still true. If you want it good and fast, you have to pay. Over the odds. Most of my clients have limited budgets. They … Continue reading

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Web forms (3): ‘sex’ or ‘gender’?

This is my third post on Web forms. All Web designers and Web developers have to work with forms. I am not so much offering tips and techniques (though I have done). Rather, I am trying to get designers and … Continue reading

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Web forms (2): getting dates

If you have ever designed a Web form, you will almost certainly have asked your website visitor to give you her or his name. I wrote about that in my previous post on Web form design. Almost as common is … Continue reading

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Web forms: getting names

If you have ever designed a form for the Web, the chances are that your form design will have included a form field (or form fields) to get your Web visitor’s name. I filled in a Web form like this … Continue reading

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Colours and names in CSS style sheets

One of the easiest things to do in a CSS style sheet is to assign colours to elements. You have just 2 properties to play with, background colour and colour (in style sheets, of course, both properties have to be … Continue reading

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Another ‘iceberg’ Web site

A couple of weeks ago, I completed another ‘iceberg’ Web site, in which most of the site is restricted. As part of the process, I learned how to create a complete WordPress theme (about time I got round to properly … Continue reading

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Moving a Web site based on a proprietary CMS (part 2)

On Monday I set the scene. We left our protagonist facing a task which all the wise men said was impossible. Fit stuff for stories. And it does make a good story, with lots of false starts and lessons learned—as … Continue reading

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Moving a Web site based on a proprietary CMS (part 1)

Can you move a Web site based on a proprietary Content Management System to which you have only a customer’s access? The short answer would seem to be ‘no’. One UK Web company includes this question among its FAQs: “Can … Continue reading

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One-page Web sites

How do people feel about one-page Web sites? For myself, I think they are pretty important, while a real Web site is being developed behind the scenes. I have a couple of Web sites in this position right now. One … Continue reading

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