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Find My Tradesman - More details->Theme Redesign Bespoke Wordpress Development Geolocation functionality Bespoke Logo
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The Animal Farm - More details->Web Design Wordpress Development Theme Options Bespoke Widgets
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Esteban Music - More details->Web Design Wordpress Development Social Network Integration Data Capture Facebook Widget
The Navy Training Corps - More details->Web Design Wordpress Development Online Shop Unit Locator Admin Section
Lisa Charrington-Wilden - More details->Web Design Wordpress Development Bespoke "Custom Fields" Functionality Javascript Photo Gallery
Blog Friends - More details->Web Design Wordpress Multi User External Blog Aggregation Social Networking Functionality
I have recently had a client ask me to implement functionality to allow them to change the main background image and background color. My first reaction was to try to persuade them that it was a bad idea for reasons x, y and z but really what I was worried about was them ruining my beautiful bespoke theme with their ... Read more…
The Brads – Walled Garden
Findmytradesman
Findmytradesman.com is a search engine for tradesman (and women!).
Originally I was hired to introduce the bespoke functionality to the search feature to allow users to enter their postcode or city and the search results be ordered by distance from user to tradesman.
After completing this we ... Read more…
The Brads – Interface Design
Aston Villa job
So I probably owe a lot of you an explanation about aston villa. You have all been so supportive, so thanks!
I did get offered the job!
I turned it down though…. I know…… ludicrous….
Here’s the thing. It just wasn’t me… it was very corporate. Suits and cubicles in a rammed office. Its just not me!
The guy who would have ... Read more…
The Brads – iPhone4
8 Steps Obama Should Take to Stop the Oil Spill
The Brads – Rake Deploy
The Brads – Just Google it Next Time
The Brads – Oil Spill
I’m trying something a little different with the comic. It’s kinda hard to explain why it can’t be viewed here, click through to see it in its glory.
Read more…The Brads – Tweet to Win
The Brads – Twitter Outage
The Brads – Twitter Outage
The Brads – Just Write it
The Brads – How to Alienate a Fanbase
The Brads – How to Alienate a Fanbase
The Brads – Gizmodo’s Editorial Process
The Brads – Gizmodo’s Editorial Process
Theanimalfarm.co.uk
The Animal Farm is a great record label in London that releases some stonking music.
Before contacting me the website was using the studio press theme which as lovely as it is did not suit the needs of the label or convey the “feel” ... Read more…
The Brads – Test How Your Site Looks on the iPad
Check out The Many Faces of site and thanks to Reagan Ray Trent Walton and Dave Rupert
Read more…The Brads – Test How Your Site Looks on the iPad
Check out The Many Faces of site and thanks to Reagan Ray Trent Walton and Dave Rupert
Read more…How to build an options page for your WordPress theme (In 5 easy steps!)
First things first. An options panel is a custom set of options that are user definable and that come as part of a theme. Typical uses would be allowing users to change the background color of the entire site or add their social network ids to some images without having to edit any php.
Theme options are now a must if ... Read more…
The Brads – Uncle
The Brads – Uncle
The Brads – 90% of Success
The Brads – 90% of Success
The Brads – It’s a Big Deal
The Brads – It’s a Big Deal
The Brads – Photoshop Unexpectedly Quit
Big thanks to Eric Wiley for giving me permission to recycle his joke
Read more…The Brads – Photoshop Unexpectedly Quit
Big thanks to Eric Wiley for giving me permission to recycle his joke
Read more…The importance of backing up
We all backup our own computers right? Or at the very least we know that we should. But what about our clients data and content? The data we serve from our web servers are just as important if not more important. How would you explain to a client that you had lost all of their website? It may not have ... Read more…
The jealousdesigns.co.uk re-design
So as you might have noticed I’ve redesigned jealousdesigns. I was initially going to create a whole new site that took a much more personal approach as I started wondering if having a “we’re a big company” approach was pushing away potential clients. I think that there are ups and downs to having both a personal and comapny approach. Essentially ... Read more…
Brad Became the Mayor of LensCrafters
Brad Became the Mayor of LensCrafters
Easily ensure images don’t overflow your content area
Just a quick one!
Have you had the problem of images overflowing your main content area?
I have had this issue and it is particularly problematic with fluid layouts like this one.
The answer is simple-
img {max-width:100%;}
Well…. nothings that simple……
Because of padding and margins etc my images, although smaller, still overflowed slightly… ... Read more…
The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
How to show posts per category on a WordPress Powered Site
I responded to a request for help on twitter today from @russellbishop
Here is the request -
Hi there,
Here’s the link to the Wordpress site I’m constructing;
As you can see on the left hand side, I’ve built a collapsing menu with which to navigate around the site. Unfortunately I’ve had to build that menu manually, as I’m yet to ... Read more…
The Brads – How Designers Fight
The Brads – How Designers Fight
Making a WordPress data capture plugin – Part 1 – The form
As part if a recent project I was tasked with building a data capture wordpress plugin. Of course I could have adapted an already existing plugin for my needs but I fancied the challenge and wanted a bit of ownership over a function I provided. Here’s the breif-
Display multiple forms on a website that not only send ... Read more…
Estebanmusic.co.uk
Esteban are a great band who are extensively touring and needed to promote themselves in in as many ways as possible.
The brief for the website was -
“The website doesn’t need to be a visual work of art. The site has to inform. It has to invite the visitor to participate (by sharing, joining, commenting etc.) ... Read more…
The Brads – Fail Whale
Front Page Welcome
Jealous Designs is a web design and development company that I started in 2007
I make websites using WordPress as a content management system
Jealous Designs is a small business (it’s just me!) but that means that you get 100% of my attention
Jealous Designs provides a 360 degree service which ... Read more…
For Christmas I received Handcrafted CSS by DAN CEDERHOLM. The book is all about “progressive enrichment”, which is refreshing and interesting. The first chapter deals with “what happens if?” which is all about designing and developing sites that will work no matter what happens. The second chapter deals with rounded corners. This ... Read more… The Navy Training Corps, is a National Youth Organisation promoting adventurous activities for Junior Cadets 8-12 years of age, and Cadets 12-18 years of age. This website needed to be clean, efficient and engaging and as a national organisation it was essential that the website reflect the morals and views of the Navy ... Read more… Lisa Charrington-Wilden is a super talented artist who works with primarily charcoal, pencil, chalk and conti but is pretty good with most drawing mediums. She needed a site that accurately reflected herself and her art whilst also being an online canvas for here work. After all the important thing here is her artwork, ... Read more… Blogfriends.com is a social network for bloggers. It boasts features that any decent social site has - * Profiles. * Private messaging. * “Walls”. * Forums. * Blogs. Probably the most important feature of this site is the ability for ... Read more… Built on WordPress this site had a number of specific requirements. Not only was it to be minimal but it needed to have an “honesty box”. This involved having a shopping cart that had the option to simply download the ... Read more… OSCnews.co.uk is “The Resource For Offsite Construction”. Using a single installation of Wordpress the site is a fully functional members site that boasts member profiles with custom fields and profile pictures as well as a custom dashboard redesigned to reflect the main site. Mike Sullivan is a musician who needed to have a presence on the web. He wanted a stylish yet functional site that encompassed both his music and his personality. Jealous Designs built a bespoke WordPress theme for him. With stylish swirls and sophisticated notation this site is a pleasure ... Read more… We think that Wordpress, as you may have guessed, is brilliant. We develop bespoke themes for it but for some people it isn’t practical to pay for a custom design. But don’t fear! There are thousands of free Wordpress themes that range from practical to beautiful to absolutely mind blowing! What i have tried to do ... Read more… Comments are so often over looked in wordpress blogs. Its easy to just add the comments.php file and forget about it. But there’s so much you can do with them! One cool thing you can do is use your readers twitter profile picture in their comments. This is done by seeing if the ... Read more…
The Brads – Illogical Conclusions
The Brads – Steve’s iHype
The Brads – Ready to Bite
The Brads – Magic Mouse
The Brads – When all Else Fails
CSS 3 Rounded Corners
Navytrainingcorps.org
Lisacharringtonwilden.com
blogfriends.com
Padre-records.com
Padre-records.com is the home of an independent record label.
Oscnews.co.uk
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Mikemusical.co.uk
Every Free Wordpress Theme Ever!
Twitter Gravatar Intergration
