Web development sites are ten a penny, but A List Apart is one of the best resources on the net. Great articles on standards, design, freelancing and technical crunch.
February 14, 2008
February 13, 2008
Font face lifts
To go alongside a fantastic colour scheme (check out the post on Adobe Kuler) I love the idea of coming up with a design using a great looking font. With the theme I’m using at the moment “Word to your mother” I was obviously in a hip-hop mood, so I ended up using some great graffiti fonts.
Well, I tracked those fonts down through a couple of freeware font sites, a great example of which is Fonts 500. Five pages, each with 100 fonts on, taken from the popular downloads of a selection of other font sites.
Great stuff.
February 8, 2008
The joys of XAMPP
XAMPP is a great tool for web development. Its basically a complete web server environment, well, Apache, MySQL and PHP, so all the important stuff. If you need a Java Enterprise environment, there’s even a Tomcat plugin for it. Best of all, it fits on a USB key and can run straight from there, making it your own portable server, great for demoing that “Work in progress” web application.
February 7, 2008
Adobe Kuler
When I’m looking for inspiration for making a site, an appropriate colour scheme can really help. That’s where Adobe Kuler comes in, a flash based “Web 2.0″ application that brings a community of designers
together, all contributing interesting colour combination’s.
February 6, 2008
Loving WordPress
Since setting up the new website, I’ve been loving the WordPress system.
I used to use Blogger, the Google powered blog site, but WordPress seems to offer so much more functionality. The ability to use it as a back end system with front end customisations to generate any site you can think of is very powerful. I’m looking forward to working on the Maydays new site using it.
February 4, 2008
Greetings
Welcome to smileham.co.uk.
I’m currently working on a couple of projects, and once I get a few moments out of my busy schedule, I’ll update this site.
