- Add a widget to a WordPress page or post via a shortcode – with default values
- Adding column number CSS classes to WordPress widgets
- Transferring WordPress sql data between localhost and production
- Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design
- Android CSS background image blurriness
- Semantic HTML
- Facebook pages suck, personas are better for marketing
- Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace
- Flash site templates that work on iPhone (& iPad)
- Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object
Author Archives: Steve
Merging print and online businesses
In June 2008, I was appointed to a difficult and fast paced project which had been given the personal go ahead by the Fairfax Media CEO. The project was a merging of the online and print employment classifieds offering in NSW. This necessary step in managing the transition of the customer base from print to [...]
Posted in 2008, product management
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Good Food Guides 2011
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Good Food Guides are the Michelin Guides of Australia. If you are into food then you have these on your shelf and consult them regularly. If you work in the restaurant industry then you await their publication each year with a sense of foreboding or giddy hope that [...]
Hippo.com.au redesign
Hippo.com.au is a youth focused employment site that was launched in 2005. Like other players in the market it’s fortunes took a hit towards the end of 2008 as the GFC hit and many employers took a risk averse approach to hiring.
Posted in 2010, Code, consulting, CSS, Featured, SEO, web design advice, web sites
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Transferring WordPress sql data between localhost and production
There are quite a few blog posts around that provide helpful tips on transferring the sql data (all the posts and category content in the wordpress database) between your local development environment and production (live) site.
Posted in wordpress
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Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design
User Experience (UX) is where I spend most of my time in web and mobile development. Designing/Creating/Architecting/Planning the product all involves working on how the user will experience the product.
Posted in consulting, UX/Design
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Android CSS background image blurriness
Recently I completed some UI intensive work for a client that was designed for smart-phones. The project was targeted at iPhone and Android users primarily and being web based, made heavy use of CSS3 and HTML5 to achieve the desired highly graphical user interface. During the course of the project we noticed that some Android [...]
Posted in Code, CSS, mobile
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Semantic HTML
After reviewing the folios of over 50 front end developers and working with quite a few, I’ve come to the conclusion that when it comes to semantic markup, most developers talk the talk but in reality have no clue what it means.
Facebook pages suck, personas are better for marketing
Two of my Facebook friends are not people, they are ‘personas’ that are used to promote an organization. Both of these organizations used to do their facebook marketing via a facebook page, however they found that this method was unimpressive.
Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace
I’m kidding really – there is no way you could find and replace your AS2 code into AS3 Actionscript 3 is hugely different from Actionscript 2, but that doesn’t meant that you can’t do a lot of the grunt work using a simple find and replace
Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object
Continuing with my updating an Actionscript 2 project to Actionscript 3 I’m really enjoying the optimisation possibilities that AS3 provides.