There’s a popular myth that in the 1960s, upon realizing regular pens would not function in space, NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity. The Russian answer to the same problem was to simply issue their cosmonauts with pencils. Despite the fiction, the message is a valuable one:… Read More »
Author: Code Cat
Self-confessed CSS and PHP meddler, cover and eBook designer for Hic Dragones, and musician.
Bespoke Or Not Bespoke – Spotting The Fakers
In a recent conversation with a client, he told us about a previous experience with a web designer who had built his old site. The designer had an impressive website with the latest animations, a large office, and was very keen to deliver the perfect website as soon as possible. And they did deliver everything… Read More »
Beginner’s Guide to Adding Font Awesome in WordPress
It used to be the case that adding icons to your site – e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc. – required image files. This was quite limiting, as those icons couldn’t be styled to perfectly match your site, other than obviously manipulating them in an editor like Photoshop. Then in 2012, Dave Gandy created Font Awesome –… Read More »
16 Free WordPress Frameworks and Starter Themes
If you’ve ever wanted to make your own WordPress theme, you’ll know after reading through the theme development Codex there’s quite a lot of work involved before you write a single line of your own code, which is quite daunting. Fortunately, there are plenty of nice people on the internet who have created starter themes… Read More »
SEO Snake Oil
For the record, this isn’t a blog post taking a lazy swipe at an entire industry. I honestly believe that Search Engine Optimization, when done properly, will vastly improve your website and its presence. But like many industries that require a laptop and an internet connection, SEO has also been infiltrated by a vast horde… Read More »