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Oops. After I left Active Webdezign shortly after the last post, I'm afraid I did neglect this website for a long time, I was quite burnt out with the whole web malarkey. Luckily, now I'm at university doing a related course, enjoying learning C, turning for my website design lectures at least (tend to do work in them anyway), so it's all flooding back to me. Plenty of sketches on a new design, problem is I'm saving them for the ...

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Now, I know why most people compress they're js files, because they don't won't people to steal the code, but it must be the case that sometimes, like what happened to me today, you've just gotta crack that encryption. I'm a bit worried about posting this, so I hope it's in someway new and/or useful. Basically we need to go into a js file that was given to us, in order to change a few DOM-based functions. I opened up the ...

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Having made about 8 websites using Wordpress in 4 or so months up until I went away, I was a litte fed up of the system, having to find increasingly complex solutions to some of the more advanced CMS functions required of each site. I was pretty glad when I came back that I didn't have to dive straight into another one, as much as I love the system. But I've been using it again for the new ...

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Okay. Redesign is not happening yet. I had set myself the deadline to finish it by the May 1st Reboot, but to no avail. I think the main problem is that when you spend 9 hours of every day working with websites, primarily programming, the last thing you want to do in your downtime at home is feel pressured to design a website for a deadlineBefore India I had a knack for rubbing my eyebrows if I was stressed, ...

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The Caribbean property website I've been working on at Webdezign is nearing completion. Nothing to show quite yet, but I've very happy about it, and I got to flex my UI design skills in the administration section (the front-end design was ably undertaken by Peter). One of the multitude of new things I had to learn with this project was mod rewriting URLs using the APACHE rewrite module, which, even if I only used it ...

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Today (April 9th) is CSS Naked Day, all day long. Enjoy the ugly. (This all validates too funnily enough! Checked the validator yesterday for the first time for a long time. Probably not SEO friendly though eeek)