I spent some time studying Graphic Design whilst at college. This article is a good, basic primer on design theory. Though taught as part of a Graphic Design course, I’ve found it to be just as useful in web design, front end development in particular. Web Development & Design theory just work well together. The […]
It’s good to have some naming conventions that are flexible and future proof. Here are some of the ways I like to keep things forward thinking when planning a project. Being too specific about naming SASS variables and class names can cause you problems down the line. This is particularly important for when you plan […]
Whilst it’s true that WordPress is a high profile and popular target for hackers, it doesn’t mean you can’t reduce this risk. It’s only liable to be hacked if you’ve not taken necessary steps to secure it, like any other website. In this article I look at some of the things you’ll need to keep […]
Whilst on my web development path I inevitably got involved with some freelancing work. But I had no such freelance web developer advice, so I had to learn on the job. My future self takes a look back in time at some of the things I did wrong, and considers some of the things I […]
Atom is a favourite text editor of choice for coding. I spent a long time with sublime text, until I bit the bullet to try something new. Obviously with all the extra new features, and nicer way to handle customisations and so on, I wanted to share some add-ons (known as packages) I use to […]
Like most people I’m a creature of habit, and I’ve always preferred to use firefox for web development. It’s understandable, considering it was released before Chrome (firefox first released 2002 – compared to Chrome in 2008), and it was a much better alternative to Internet Explorer at the time. Yeh, I’m somewhat of a veteran […]
I’ve always used a developer QA checklist, when I’ve worked on web projects. This article covers some basics like fixing markup errors and console errors. You also need to consider some other things before passing it onto a QA team.
I really enjoy working on WordPress projects. For every one I kick out of the gate, the more comfortable I am with using it. However, getting to where I am now meant learning a few things first to ‘git gud’. Here are some wordpress beginner tips.
Some of these books I’ve been meaning to read up on for while. I’ve intentionally avoided books teaching code, as they quickly go out of date, and there’s a ton of information online for that sort of thing anyway. I don’t get much time to read, but hopefully I can get some of these reading […]
Working actively on code is the best way to learn. I have a few web development side projects in my to do list which I thought I’d share.