20th May 2016
With recent front-end twitter conversation turning to CSS frameworks, I went on a roller coaster of emotions but eventually settled on the above to sum up how I felt about the ordeal. Before we settle once more, let me take you on the journey I travelled.
4th May 2016
Creating a responsive, HTML email template is not as easy as it first appears. Email clients are still behind with web standards and supporting latest web technologies, so HTML emails need to be built using the table element and inline styles. This blog will walk you through creating a custom template while still using Mailchimp's WYSIWYG and Image editor
4th May 2016
I have recently been writing some small code snippets and examples for alligator.io. It's a great little website which takes front-end code and breaks them down into bitesize ...
20th April 2016
You may (or may not) have noticed that my site had a massive overhaul. With that overhaul, I changed CMS from Anchor to Craft.
11th April 2016
There is so much information on the web these days about development, that I often miss out on things on twitter. For that reason, I find HTML newsletters amazingly simple but wonderfully nutritional for my front-end developer brain.
22nd March 2016
Gulp is a task runner used for compiling SCSS to CSS, minifying JS and creating SVG sprites. Version 4 is about to be released and this blog post runs you through how to update and use the new features of gulp.
6th March 2016
I recently purchased a Western Digital EX2 NAS box for my home storage. This device is a low powered file server which is on all the time - perfect for taking care of those hefty downloads and long running tasks so I don't need to keep my laptop on.
4th March 2016
Recently I need to loop through elements on a page and, if the element had a background image apply a jQuery plugin. The plugin required the background image path & dimensions to function
15th February 2016
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer which has taken the technical world by storm. Originally developed to encourage children and schools to get into programming - the cheap device has been picked up by the development and hacking industries and has been the central device in projects no-one would have dreamed of while it was being developed.
29th January 2016
I have been searching for a solution to my problem for a while now and I have had no luck - so i'm putting it out to the masses to ...