Mega menus are a great way to organise navigation menus on sites with a large number of pages or a flat page hierarchy. Mega menus reduce the number of clicks we have have to make and makes it easier and more enjoyable to find the content we are looking for. Mega menus don’t have to just include text links to pages, they can also be used to display content, such as a promotion or a news story advertisement relating to the group of pages in the sub menu.
Follow my blog with Bloglovin When building a website it is important to understand how a stylesheet should be written in order to keep the website loading quickly. This article outlines the basics of grouping CSS selectors with the same properties; to reduce the file size of the stylesheet. When many page elements all share [...]
There are thousands of Wordpress plugins available that are designed to make updating and displaying content on a website simple and easy to use. Some do this with great simplicity and delight and there are some that can make the web development process awkward, time-consuming and complicated.
In this article, I have put together a list of wordpress plugins that every web developer should use.
An article published by the BBC today stated how officials from 10 countries, including 7 from Europe, have all expressed their concerns over Google’s software breaching privacy rights. Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has written a letter to Google raising her concerns about Google Buzz and Google Streetview. The letter has been co-signed by officials from the 9 other countries, including the United Kingdom, which calls for Google to adhere to privacy guidelines on it’s forthcoming ventures.
Bebo has been in the news recently after AOL announced that it was looking to either stop or sell the social network. Having not used Bebo in the past, favouring other social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, I am intrigued to discover exactly what it is about Bebo that has lead to AOL stop investing it’s time and money on it.
Internet Explorer 6 has been in the global news over the last few months due to it’s security imperfections leading to Google being hacked. The old browser, which was at one point considered to be the leading web browser of it’s time, is slowly being phased out by numerous large organisations such as Google.
For us Web Designers, Internet Explorer 6 has long been a burden on productivity; having to take the long way around in CSS to make sure Internet Explorer 6 users can still…