Guides & Tutorials

Guides & Tutorials

More in-depth posts containing guides or tutorials on medium to large subjects …

May 8, 2010

Rediscovering open source ecommerce offerings

A few weeks ago I started work on a ecommerce project with a budget. As with many projects on a tight budget and indeed some without, the lack of budget was made up with some open source assistance. This takes the sting out of some of the development costs and thankfully for ecommerce products there [...]

January 21, 2010

10 tried and tested ad. networks to drive revenue to your design or development site.

Trying to monetize your hard crafted design or development blog or site is no mean feat. but why shouldn’t you be rewarded for the hours you spend crafting unique content for your visitors.
Over the years I’ve been ‘at the helm’ of a fair few web sites, some good, some bad but most returning revenue in [...]

December 5, 2009

Smoother @font-face embedding in IE 7 & 8

You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com (see the recap below).
One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8’s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and [...]

December 3, 2009

Using jQuery to fix IE6 CSS annoyances

With the usage of IE6 finally declining the majority of us can now afford to be a bit more forgiving in our cross browser testing. Despite this in some circumstances the percentage of a site’s IE6 users is still far to high to do anything other than link a separate stylesheet and spend hours writing [...]

November 12, 2009

@font-face a guide to embedding gorgeous fonts that work cross-browser

Since launching the site I’ve had a few emails regarding the font being used on allcreatives and also the technique used to embed the font. Despite two previous posts on the progress on @font-face I realised I hadn’t actually posted up on how to implement @font-face effectively, so here it is.

November 10, 2009

Combining Javascript setInterval and jQuery for lovely looping animations

Any designer worth his salt will be familiar with jQuery in one form or another. The uber cool Javascript framework has become a staple of many a design studio worldwide and why not? Quite frankly Javascript frameworks don’t come much better or more importantly easier to learn than jQuery. What follows in this writeup however is a practical example of a native Javascript function that designers using jQuery or otherwise may never heard of let alone used …