Another little brochure site I’ve designed has gone live: www.addecoltd.co.uk. Addeco are a building and landscaping product manufacturer/supplier based in Stoke On Trent. This site is static HTML/CSS/jQuery and was built on top of the 960 grid system.
Archive for the ‘Website Design’ Category
July 13, 2010
Beginners guide to HTML5, what you need to know and how to use it.
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website Design, WritingHTML5 is the successor to HTML 4.01, the language most web pages on the Internet are written in. HTML5 offers new semantic elements, direct support for video and audio, built-in form validation and a smart new canvas feature. In this article I’ll attempt to explain what’s important about HTML5 and what you need to know [...]
May 17, 2010
Ever had one of these clients…?
By benfrain in Personal, Website DesignThe folks over at Push Creative forwarded this to me months back and every so often I go back for another watch. 2 minutes of genius…. If you’re self employed and work in the creative industries, there’s a good chance you will enjoy this. I think most freelancers and creative agencies have had one of [...]
May 13, 2010
Building the Healthy Retreat e-commerce website with Foxycart
By benfrain in Website DesignBack in 2008 I built the Healthy Retreat website. Due to continued success the owners have decided to start selling Pevonia beauty products online. The product line is fairly static and they didn’t require stock maintenance facilities so I built the store shopping cart functionality using Foxycart.
May 7, 2010
Magento upgrades will kill your store (probably)
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignI find it staggering that every release of Magento is a complete gamble as to whether it destroys your store or not. I’ve upgraded Magento sites about 8 times and EVERY time has been an absolute pain in the arse resulting in hours spent fixing annoying niggly errors. I now take the policy of not [...]
May 7, 2010
Remove all products in your Magento store with PHPMyAdmin
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignAfter upgrading a store to 1.4.0.1 I found I was unable to delete/amend products in the backend. The only solution was delete all products in the database. Here is the command/query I used. Please note: ensure you have a backup of your site and data before running this. It worked for me, it may not [...]
April 30, 2010
Test your website on the iPhone simulator
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignIt’s a common frustration – you’ve designed a website only to check it out on an iPhone and realise the design looks all screwy. Rather than troubleshoot the CSS with the phone itself, it’s possible to use Apple’s own iPhone Simulator to test and re-test your designs.
April 29, 2010
benfrain.com 2010 redesign
By benfrain in Personal, Website DesignI’ve been trying to get around to a site redesign for literally a couple of years. Finally, got the chance to revamp the site and blog and you’re looking at the results. I ditched the photo gallery as it was a private indulgence and I wanted the site to be a little more focused this [...]
April 12, 2010
XHTML & CSS coding for Virtual Trader
By benfrain in Website DesignOn behalf of Push Creative, I was tasked with converting a set of Photoshop PSD files into standards compliant (X)HTML and CSS. The results can be seen at the Virtual Trader website here.
February 16, 2010
MAMP Error – “You don’t have permission to access /MAMP/ on this server.”
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignIf you’re seeing this message when trying to view MAMP, chances are you have just been amending a WordPress on your localhost and have altered the url’s ready for upload to a live server? Sound about right? Same thing happened to me and I found this blog post that detailed the solution: Basically, browse to [...]
