15 Sep 2011

How to invite all friends to facebook event

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Selecting all friends and invite them to an event on facebook may be a very frustrating experience but here’s a little snippet to make life easier:
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02 Apr 2011

Removing auto-generated p and br tags from posts in wordpress

Blog, Code, PHP, Wordpress No Comments

WordPress does a great job at parsing what average users insert into the content however web designers and developers like me sometimes need the code to be outputted as is without any modified br and p tags.
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22 Jan 2011

Design for the web – Buttons

Blog, Tutorial, Web Design 2 Comments

The keyword to achieve a great design for the web is smooth. Today I will focus on how to design smooth looking buttons for the web in Photoshop CS4. The idea is very simple yet few designers understand how to achieve this result hence this tutorial.

smooth button

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14 Nov 2010

Web designers vs web developers

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This is a funny illustration I found while surfing the net and wanted to share with fellow freelance web designers and developers like me :)

Web designers vs web developers

07 Nov 2010

Exit Pop Up with Shadowbox & jQuery

Blog, Code, Conversion Rates, javascript 3 Comments

Love them or hate them exit or welcome pop ups may have huge impacts on the conversion rates. I honestly love the simplicity of Shadowbox JavaScript multimedia player but as we all know it cannot be used as a normal jQuery plugin as it overrides the events. Read more

02 Sep 2010

PHP domNode toString XML

Blog, Code, PHP 3 Comments

This is a very simple task I needed to do which basically consisted of getting a domNode as a string and printing the content. This may not be very useful in an application but it may be very useful for debugging purposes. Read more

23 Jul 2010

IE bug window resize fix

jQuery, javascript 4 Comments

This code snippet fixes IE’s bug on window resize event. As you may have noticed when you use the  .resize()  and try to get the width and height of the container these are returned as 0 thus making it impossible to centre  a div. You may not need this very often but trust me  it will save you from going hell if you’ll ever need it!
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20 Jul 2010

The life of a freelance web designer in Malta

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It’s been exactly 6 months since I left my full time job with Ascent Software and set my self on this venture. Just a few weeks ago I finished off reading The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho and it really boosted of my will to succeed and helped me out appreciate all that I’ve been through. I would recommend this book to anyone especially entrepreneurs out there willing to start a company or go freelance.

Being a freelance web designer has definitely helped me grow in many ways and today I’d like to share some of my experience with you. Read more

19 Jul 2010

Linked Studios on facebook

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Linked Studios launched iLike marketing campaign! By simply liking this facebook page you get a free introduction to internet marketing consultation and a 10% discount on our web design services! Can it get any better?

Terms and conditions:
  1. This coupon can be redeemed by direct family members too if they don’t own a facebook account.
  2. This coupon can be used only for web design services and does not include ecommerce solutions, web application development services and online marketing campaigns
  3. This coupon is valid till 31th December 2010
04 Jul 2010

Confirm anchor click with jQuery ui

Blog, Code, jQuery, javascript 13 Comments

Ok, so you need to pop up the confirm dialogue when a user clicks an anchor using jQuery right? There are several solutions to this problem but this soilution is the one I prefer.
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