Tom Fotherby
How to have a hidden wordpress page
A typical use case for a hidden page might be so you can store your website licensing agreement or image attribution links without having it explicitly in the main navigation links – most folk link to their licensing agreement in the footer. If you want to have a page on your self-hosted WordPress website that […]
Bloodbowl
PC, Board game, 9/10 I had been waiting for years for a good computer game of Bloodbowl and this is everything I had hoped for. It is a beautifully faithful version of the board game – I’m very happy with the way it plays, the teams, the user interface, the AI, the league system. It […]
Why does some website text look bad on Windows?
Look at the difference between these two 50px headers that use the Georgia font: The top one is from IE8 on Windows Vista, whereas the bottom one is from Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu 9.04. On Windows, the text is clearly less pleasant on the eye? It is has jagged edges, has a pixel or two […]
Web Design Tutorial – scripting Gimp
In a previous tutorial we went through some tedious steps to generate 3 images that could be used to create a page shadow. The great thing about the GIMP is that anything you can do with a mouse and keyboard, you can also do via script. We will generate the following images automatically: Why script […]
New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)
I get annoyed at the branding of these new “LED” TV’s – they are not fundamentally new technology, they are simply LCD screens lit up via LEDs. However it’s branded, it is brilliant! What’s Good? It is so extremely vibrant and bright that it makes our Panasonic LCD look very dull. It only uses
Web Design Tutorial – Centered area with drop shadow
In this tutorial we are going to create a very basic “blank canvas” webpage which has a central white cut-out with a drop shadow effect. Our “page” will be 960px wide, floated in the center of the browser window: Tutorial end product Click to enlarge Real-world example Click to enlarge
Good things come to those who wait
I used to have a neighbour who did photography as a hobby. It was really interesting seeing him set up little things to entice animals so he could get some photographs and I always found it amazing the creatures he could find in and around our houses. There was one particular shot he had been […]
PeoplePerHour.com homepage update
I’ve just finished a revamp of the PeoplePerHour.com hompage: Previous Design New Design The new design was needed to give space to spotlight “featured” projects (which are a new addition to the site). I think the homepage should stand out a bit more now because it’s more striking?
Supporting image alignment in your WordPress theme
If you are making a WordPress theme you owe it to the user of your theme to make sure image alignment works as expected. Most of the Visual Editor formatting buttons use inline CSS which won’t be affected by the theme but this is not the case with the alignment buttons in pages/posts when applied […]
Halo ODST
XBox360,FPS,4/10 – Sep 2009 I loved the TV series called “Firefly” and always thought it’d make a good computer game, so it seems Christmas had come early – Mal (Nathan Fillion), the Firefly captain is in the latest Halo game together with Jane (Adam Baldwin), and Wash (Alan Tudyk). I found the trailer REALLY exciting: […]
Using the Purisa Light font on a Website
If you want to use the “Purisa Light” font on your Linux hosted website, you can follow the following steps: Copy the font file from your desktop machine to your webserver. On Ubuntu the “Purisa Light” font file is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf. e.g: scp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf <username>@<webhost>:/<pathToWebsite>/fonts/Purisa.ttf Add the font face to your stylesheet: Now you […]
Show more than 10 items in a Amazon Carousel
What is a “Amazon Carousel”? It is a advert showing a bunch of items you can buy on Amazon: Amazon.co.uk Widgets Amazon put a limit on the number of items in a carousel. However, if you have more than 10 items, you can use a little javascript to select 10 at random so a different […]
Making Linux friendly
We gave Fred (my father-in-law) a hand-me-down computer because his one is suffering from Windows rot and is unbearably slow. Our one comes with a catch… It has Ubuntu instead of Windows. How do you make a Ubuntu computer easy to use? Turn on Auto login Remove all icons on the desktop, then add back […]
Cybernetic Cypher
We have a cool new cat accessory. It’s a battery powered microchip activated cat flap. It works extremely well and I like knowing that other cats can’t get in and eat Cypher’s food. Actually, you are wrong – The internet does need another cat picture.
