Closing the chapter on ExpressionEngine
May 13. 26A reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee.
Archives / Tag: Code
The tools of my trade
Nov 14. 13Sometimes people ask, so to save tweets here’s a quick summary:
I struck upon a wonderful little idea which I’ve implemented in a simple plug-in I’m writing for a project I’m currently working on.., add a...
Don’t get me wrong, I love Expression Engine but sometimes you just come up against a brick wall and the only solution is to either pay someone to write a...
A simple JavaScript to toggle page elements
Feb 16. 07No rocket science here but I thought I’d blog this for my own future reference. Just a handy little script to have about.
I ❤ ExpressionEngine
Mar 10. 06After my recent rant about having to edit CMS templates via a browser text field I think I have perhaps stumbled across ExpressionEngines best feature yet....
Mark of the web (or why IE6 sucks)
Mar 01. 06An exploration of IE6's Mark of the Web security feature and why it causes so many headaches for web developers.
If you just smile
Feb 24. 06I just finished up working on a website this week for a new client (Smile Photography), still a fair bit of placeholder copy about. The ingredients;...
Adding on hover copyright to Lightbox
Feb 13. 06I’ve been using Lightbox by Lokesh Dakar on a current project and needed to add a simple copyright message on hover just to remind those nice users that...
CSSVista Launched
Nov 08. 05A while back the lads over at salted gave us a sneak peek at CSSVista, their standalone Windows application for web developers which allows you to edit raw...
New tricks with Textile
Oct 19. 05I’m using textile on a project I’m currently working on and having come up against a bit of an issue I discovered a nifty little feature of textile which...
Getting on Google Maps
May 03. 05So, my mission should I choose to accept it, (which I have) is to have myself (or my domain name) appear on a Google Maps search for ‘nathan pitman...
Adding geographical tags to your website
Apr 23. 05Having noticed geographical data in the meta tags of many blogs recently I decided to investigate a little further and work out how to indicate the...
MXNA (2) Public Beta
Apr 11. 05Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers are inviting all willing participants to put the new Macromedia XML News Aggregator through its paces.
Joined-up Website Design
Mar 26. 05I just finished working on ‘another’ site for the wife of a cohort of mine. Mrs Tiffany Kemp runs a commercial management business called Devant. Much like...
Wedding Photography
Mar 17. 05I just finished working on a site for a cohort of mine. Mr Simon Kemp is perhaps the best wedding & portrait photographer ever but his old website just...
CSS3 in Firefox
Dec 03. 04Blake Scarbrough has blogged about using some upcoming features of the CSS3 specification in Mozilla Firefox. There’s some pretty neat tricks to be had and...
Styling Horizontal Rules with CSS
Oct 26. 04Tip of the day… don’t waste hours trying to style Horizontal Rules consistently in different browsers. Instead wrap your HR in a div, set the HR to
Sidebar / Explorer Bar queries
Sep 15. 04I’m working on a project at work at the moment where I’m considering using a browser Sidebar (Firefox) / Explorer Bar (IE) in place of a JavaScript pop-up.
yugop.com v4
Aug 27. 04After what seems like an age, yugop.com has been updated by Yugo Nakamura.
New RSS feeds at Macromedia
Jun 28. 04Macromedia have made the very sensible decision to set up a bunch of ‘product’ RSS feeds to allow individuals to keep up to date with product related news....
Web standards: Who cares anyway?
Jun 09. 04The Web Standards Project is asking you – do you use web standards? And who the heck are you anyway?
RSS feeds by category
Jun 04. 04Following a recent post by Brandon on devnulled.com I’ve decided that it would be beneficial to make category based RSS (and Atom) feeds available for my site.
Interactive 3D CSS Box Model
May 27. 04Inspired by Jon Hicks 3D CSS Box Model graphic which I posted a link to last week, Redmelon.net have posted an Interactive 3D CSS Box Model on their site....
There’s a great new tutorial on the Macromedia Developer Center which covers assembling a rich Flash interface and connecting it to a MySQL database through...
3D CSS Box Model
May 21. 04Jon Hicks of Hicks Design has posted a nice little diagram that explains how padding, border and margin work together and the order in which elements such...
Drop Shadows are ‘In’
May 18. 04I think we’ve all noticed that Drop Shadows are making a resurgence on the web. Having discussed this issue with some work colleagues recently I was...
Browsing XML with Flash
Apr 30. 04So, I finally got round to having a look at the Data components in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. I decided that a good place to start would be to create a small...
Pink Cow(s)
Apr 13. 04Well, I just finished work on another CSS based site for a client. Pink Cow sell educational software for schools. They approached us here at Mirashade...
Web Accessibility and UK Law…
Apr 13. 04Trenton Moss has written a great article for A List Apart on Web Accessibility and the UK Law.
Small budgets are great
Apr 08. 04I just put the finishing touches to a little budget site we’ve done here at Mirashade for a partner of ours. This particular job reminds me how enjoyable it...
Textpattern plugins
Apr 06. 04Drew has been blogging about the fantastic feature in Textpattern which allows developers to quickly and easily write ‘plugins’ using standard PHP. Check...
JavaScript support in Director?
Jan 04. 04I just came across a post on John Dowdells blog RE a news item which has gone up too early on the Computerworld site. The subject: ‘Macromedia Director MX...
Something weird with PHP includes…
Dec 05. 03There is something weird going on with PHP includes on a site which I’m working on. I’ve been trying to include a file which will change depending on where...
Fun with Sessions!
Dec 04. 03Drew and I have been having some fun with session variables on PHP for Windows. Intermitent success would be a good description of the situation. Check out...
Just finished working on this…
Jul 25. 03Oursafesite.com is a place for children, adults and teachers to communicate, learn and share knowledge with the aim of establishing best practices for all...
Thoughts on Flash Communication Server MX
Jul 12. 02Some interesting thoughts on the release of Flash Communication Server MX over at Actionscript.com, worth a quick read.