Online there’s loads of blog posts and articles about web development, marketing, copywriting, and graphic design. As a web-designer things like technical knowledge and design skills are very important – but there’s not so much about building a successful team...
Recently I received an invite to go and see a preview of Season 3 of Star Wars: Clone Wars at the Warner Brothers HQ in London.Anyone who knows me, knows I am a long time Star Wars fan, including the...
I recently got sent some more iTunes movies to review. I like getting free stuff and, as you can tell from the post titles, these were good’uns 🙂Paul Paul Movie Poster Paul is the latest film from Simon Pegg and...
Ok – so – TimThumb. I am sure many people have seen this already but some code exploits were recently discovered in TimThumb. Now that everything is under control once more I thought I would explain what happened and what...
It’s been a while since I have written a movie review here on Binary Moon, I’m hoping I can start doing them more often as I rather enjoy the process. Its Kind of a Funny Story Movie Poster My latest...
In the last 7 months I have released 3 new WordPress Themes on Pro Theme Design and so I thought I would mention them here. The themes cover a variety of website types/ niches, and so are suitable for a...
I recently had someone email me and ask what a day in my life, or that of a web designer, was like. A slightly unusual request but I thought I would take up the challenge and document an average day.I...
Building WordPress themes for Pro Theme Design I have to tread a fine line, between what people ask for, and what people want.I get loads of feature requests, and generally my approach is to suggest a plugin, or to dig...
Recently I have had a couple of emails about changing the amount of compression on TimThumb cropped images. The change itself is really easy, however I thought I would write it up as a reference for those who aren’t aware...
Recently my website was moved to a new web server, and in the process the server software was upgraded, and it broke some parts of my site. It took a bit of digging but in the end I worked out...
These days everyone with a blog understands the importance of thumbnail images. Three years ago it was common place to have exclusively text, but now a nice image is a requirement. As such the process of implementing the image needs...
One of the great things about WordPress is how 404 error pages are handled. If a page isn’t found then you can show a proper dynamic error page giving the user things to do – this removes a lot of...
I posted briefly about this years ago – and it seems it’s finally happening. And by ‘seems’ I mean ‘is due for release in 10 days!’.George RR Martins Game of Thrones series is probably my favorite book series ever. The...
Moving the crop position used to be the most requested TimThumb feature – but then I added it, and so something else had to step up and replace it.The next most requested feature is proportional image scaling. To be honest,...
This month is a little late very late I’m afraid. I was in San Francisco at the start of March (for the Game Developers Conference) so wasn’t able to write up the statistics as on time as I would have...
Ever heard the saying, ‘the more I learn the less I know’? I often feel that way with WordPress! I like to think that my knowledge of WordPress is above average, but I keep learning new things, and they keep...
February 14th is Valentines Day; a day when many of us lavish extra time and attention on our loved ones. We treat them extra special, buy them some flowers, maybe do some cooking – basically we show them just how...
I read a few websites that share their traffic statistics and I find the whole process fascinating. The stats themselves don’t really interest me. What does interest me is the analysis that goes with it. Why did this month get...
The Google Code blog has recently announced a new method for modifying code committed to the site. They have created an online code editor that can be used by anyone.This is fantastic for people who want to contribute to any...
Ok – I know we’re almost a month into 2011, but I wanted to make a record of my plans for the coming year.Last year I did quite well with my plans. The best news was that, at the end...
Do you want to increase the page views on your website? Everyone does right? Well this is something I have been spending a lot of time thinking about, and I recently found out something quite surprising.In hindsight I probably shouldn’t...