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When I design a website I really like to add small touches that most people won’t notice. In fact there’s a blog I follow that is dedicated to these small areas of delight. One of the things I like to...

When I was 13 I saw Toy Story at the cinema – and I instantly knew that 3d art was what I wanted to do. I had always been a doodler – I liked drawing cartoons and inventing things. I...

A Jetpack I’ve now got 2 themes on WordPress.com – Mimbo Pro and Opti – and as such I have spent quite a lot of time on the site. WordPress.com is powered by WordPress – but it also has a...

I am so clumsy, and I am currently living in what can only be described as a building site. Last year my wife and I bought our first house and we have been renovating it ever since. Because of the...

This has done the rounds loads of times before – but clearing css floats is something I need to do all the time, and since I have to look up the code on every project I thought I would add...

A few months after I met Jo, who is now my wife, she said that she thought I looked good with a beard. Since this meant I didn’t have to shave, and since it got the thumbs up from my...

I didn’t realise it had been so long but in February 2010 I wrote a little blog post about creating screenshots of websites automatically.I wrote this after finding that the team at WordPress had created their own system for doing...

I don’t remember the last time I made a WordPress theme that didn’t do all sorts of unique stuff. I’ve never been interested in making standard blog designs and always want to create something a bit different. This throws up...

I really like the idea of a Tumblog – and even have one on Tumblr.com – but I don’t promote it anywhere. Conceptually it’s great – but I don’t like not having control over my content.What I would really like...

The way we watch television is changing. There’s a lot of talk about the multi screen experience – watching tv from your sofa while surfing the Internet on your iPad/ laptop. And television broadcasting companies are noticing. They’re also noticing...

I found the reactions after the iPhone 5 announcement last week really interesting. Everyone knew the iPhone 5 was coming, and all the rumour blogs had announced almost everything presented. Before it started we knew many of the announcements. So...

I take a lot of screenshots on my Mac – for all sorts of reasons. Often it’s screenshots of web pages that I am going to draw over or modify for mockups. Sometimes it’s screen shots of bugs that need...

I converted to Mac a couple of years ago – and am now a bit of a fanboy. Over the last couple of years I’ve been scouring the interwebs looking for the best apps to make my Mac usage even...

Internet Explorer 6 is finally dying a death. It’s been a really long time coming, but it seems to be widely accepted that we – as web designers – no longer support it. That’s fine, but what about the rest?...

I moved house last year and we’ve slowly been going through the boxes of junk weeding out the rubbish when, a couple of days ago, I found my old video game art portfolio.I must have made this in 2002/ 2003...

South-downs Way I always like to challenge myself. I generally go for mental challenges, trying new technologies and coming up with new ideas. I feel that it’s the best way to learn and expand my mind – however I tend...

If you’re reading this in a web browser (and you’ve visited the site before) then you’ll know that I have recently updated the design here on Binary Moon.I’ve been sitting on this design for about 7 or 8 months. I...

As web designers, sometimes we need to work with lists of countries. For instance there is a new EU cookie law coming into action soon – that only applies to Europe. There is a worldwide standard that gives each country...

My first theme, Regulus, was released on WordPress.com as one of the first themes there. It’s because of Regulus that I started really getting into WordPress themes, so it’s great to have another theme of mine on the site.One of...

Draw Something’s developer, OMGPop, was recently purchased by Zynga for $crazy money. It’s a phenomenon that I don’t quite understand but have been dragged in to.Essentially it’s a drawing game, with no objective. Take it in turns to draw pictures...

So I continued experimenting with my experimental iPhone game from over a week ago.In the video below you can see the progress I have made. I added a very simple graphic for the character you are protecting. I thought this...