Category Archives: JavaScript

Rounding Corners on Websites

July 09, 2009   Paul Norman   2 Comments

There are many many ways to do this floating around, here is just another that I have used in the past. It uses one large image file (which will be cached after the first use) and focuses on simplification of HTML markup.

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Optimising Your Site’s CSS, JavaScript, Images and Server Settings

July 09, 2009   Paul Norman   No comments

The speed at which a site loads these days is becoming less of an issue, but still I occasionally visit a site where I think “wow, that’s slow!” and look at the requests it is making in Firebug to see what on earth is going on. Often it’s a simple case of loads and loads of individual requests being made for js files, css files and (large) images. We can do something about this!

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Fixing WordPress Code Formatting

June 12, 2009   Paul Norman   5 Comments

As one of my tasks to make this basic blog I had to learn a little about Wordpress (2.71), just enough to get it skinned and get writing. I very quickly came across what I can only assume must be an extremely common problem that expert users face when writing their posts / pages in this excellent platform, text formatting. At first I thought I was doing something wrong. When I swapped between the Visual and HTML views I seemed to lose any <p> tags (and likely countless others) and when I actually viewed the site’s source I had gained <br /> tags… I did what most people do and hit Google for quick solutions, but I couldn’t find anything acceptable.

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