Web Design

By Webologist • October 15th, 2009

OK, Geocities is now in its last couple of weeks. Soon it will be no more. Why Yahoo! is closing it is a mystery really, as other companies seem to manage to make a fair bit of business from the free sites. Here is a roundup of places you can go to get a free [...]

An interesting discussion has been kicked off by Kim over at Cre8asiteforums.com – what types of website should be emotionally engaging, which should be minimalist, clean, “professional”? And what is meant by “professional style” in web design? A site for Children will look very different from one for stock brokers, but both will surely be [...]

Sometimes the easiest way to make a quick and dramatic change to a website is to change the font. There are several popular font families that work well together to keep the appearance of your website the same across a range of different operating systems and web browsers. Her we provide a list courtesy of [...]

There are a lot of color tables, color charts and color wheels online these days, however, many are just a bit naff. But this one I found today is actually pretty good.
It is from Colorschemedesigner.com and allows you to enter your chosen color as an RGB value (000000–FFFFFF) and then view colors that are either [...]

Just found this fantastic tutorial on adding widget areas to any Wordpress theme. I successfully set up a new widget area below the content of my posts on another blog I write for in about 5 minutes.
Addwidget Area to Theme: Step 1.
In the index.php file in your theme directory, add the following code to an [...]

We are proud to announce that we have been chosen the host the MotleyHealth.com logo competition. MotleyHealth.com has decided that it is time to upgrade their current logo, and have decided to search for a new logo by way of a competition.
The logo should be on the theme of Fitness, Strength and Weight Loss. It [...]

If you are moving a site to a new server, or building a site for a client, and wish to test it before updating the name servers, then this task is very simple to do, especially if you have a Linux PC.
All you need to do is add a line in the etc/hosts file like [...]

One thing that I struggled with for ages was posting code to a blog, as the code would invariable be processed, meaning that it could not be shown. However, a bit of googling revealed that there are several online solutions which convert php or html code into blog safe code.
This one is very simple and [...]

If you have a static html website, but want to build an attractive and stylish menu, with different hover styles and active styles and sub menus, then it is really quite simple. To get it working, the only thing you need to do is either use .php pages or have the following code in your [...]

My main concern regarding the running of a MySQL database driven website is that servers to die, and having a backup is essential. However, without an automated backup solution, you are likely to find that when you most need it, your backup is old.
Fortunately a plugin has been written for Wordpress which not only allows [...]