Frameworks

We’re back again with another installment of the Alphabet for Web Business series; I trust that you find these two words inspiring and helpful. O is for Opportunity Many of us speak about innovation or “different thinking”, however much of the great inventions of the last decade have been the […]

There are a lot of articles out there that claim to showcase 50 or more ‘essential’ web and desktop apps for freelancers who want to run their businesses 100% digitally. The reality is that anyone who claims there are 50 or even 30 ‘essential’ apps for freelancers probably has no […]

This isn’t a typical “SEO mistakes” article. I won’t exude the virtues of readable URLs and unique page titles — good web developers know those techniques. This advice is aimed at people running a business. You may not have strong IT or marketing skills, but you’re probably aware of the […]

WordPress can save developers weeks of effort. It’s difficult to justify writing your own CMS when it offers so many features. That said, there are times when you want to inject your own PHP code; perhaps a custom form or a report generated by another system. To insert your code […]

By Jason Beaird 9th Aug 2011 General, Layout Inspiration, Tutorial 1 Most of what we’ve talked about thus far has been design theory. Theory’s helpful, but it can only take us so far towards understanding why some ideas work — and others don’t — in a website’s design. In my opinion, examples and practice […]

Most freelancers have the idea that we need to be connected 24/7. The phone, email, social media, IM, Skype — if we believe the media, we can’t abandon any of these channels even for a moment. Maybe, while you’re in a meeting, you can set your status to Busy or […]

I have rose-tinted memories of CSS2.1. Rounded corners may have caused hours of Photoshopping grief, but it was simple. Most developers could recall the few dozen properties without referring to reference books every two minutes. CSS3 changes everything. There are 116 new properties* with multiple vendor prefixes and different syntaxes. […]

By Gordon Currie 8th Aug 2011 Logo Design Logo Design 3 For most web freelancers, it’s not uncommon for the phone to ring with that fateful question, “Hey, can you guys build me a new company logo?” And for most of us, we answer yes, hang up and then start […]

So far you’ve seen samples for authenticating and working with Facebook, Twitter and Live Id, covering OAuth 1 and 2. In this post you’ll see how easily we can take the existing code and get it to work against LinkedIn. We’ll start with the code you saw in my earlier […]