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Web workflow: tools and frameworks

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

For the last few years ‘frameworks’ (or ‘boilerplates’, or ‘bootstraps’) have been all the rage – they’re intended to provide developers/designers with prefabricated foundations for their work, removing some of the tedium involved in some of the more robotic aspects of web design and development. I admit that I came a little late to that party [...]

So, when exactly did we finally ‘make poverty history’?

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

I’m only asking because nobody seems to be wearing the little white arm bands any more. I can only assume this is because the fight was fought and won, and poverty has indeed been eradicated – ‘made history’ – and the world’s poor are now living it up like the rest of us, buying the [...]

2 column news and events page list template for concrete5

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Hi all I’ve been building the theme for a new concrete5 site, and the designers of the site specified a two-column, four-item news area on the homepage, showing news items in descending date order, in a Z shape. This is what the layout looks like: concrete5′s pagelist block is the best thing for this job, [...]

Integrate Google Site Search into concrete5

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Hi all I’ve just succeeded in adding Google Site Search to my concrete5 site and I thought I’d share how. This is for sites where you want a search box on every page (for example in the sidebar or header), and the results to display on their own page. Here”s an example: Google site search [...]

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