No More IE6 Support
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- April 14th, 2010 »
- alexhughes
If you have visited any of the avato sites over the past month in Internet Explorer 6, then you would have had a nasty surprise when certain things went missing, out of place and basically the site developed a mind of it’s own. Why is this? We removed all IE6 support elements from the site. With the percentage of our users that use Internet Explorer 6 dropping to an average 6.7% in the month of March – we can now afford to do so.
We recommend you read "Logo Design Love" by David Airey
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- April 1st, 2010 »
- alexhughes
Over the passed week, i’ve offloaded more work and drank more coffee in order to find the time to pick up David Airey’s – Logo Design Love, A guide to creating iconic brand identities. To say I struggled to put the book down would be an under statement. From the brilliance of chapter one – 33 Logos in 33 Minutes, I quickly fell in love.
Quick Tut: jQuery Toggle
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- March 28th, 2010 »
- alexhughes
Today we’re going to have a quick look at how we can toggle elements using CSS and jQuery. This can be used for creating drop down panels, revealing images to your users demand and hide them for that case too. All of this can be easily done by using the greatly popular javascript framework jQuery.
Screencast: Installing and logging in to wordpress
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- March 12th, 2010 »
- alexhughes
Our wordpress marathon continues (finally). We are going to begin with something for beginners and over a series of tutorials we will cover everything from logging in to writing our own wordpress plug-in. In acceding order, therefore we will be starting with installing wordpress then logging in for the first time.
Customising your wordpress admin panel
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- February 27th, 2010 »
- alexhughes
A great part of what makes using wordpress so easy is the given ability to adapt your wordpress admin panel to your preference. From drag and drop to defining how many lines you want in your editor, You truly can make your panel your own little work space and be more productive than ever before.