Sometimes even the best client site can have a lot of content on the page. Previously we would have linked to content way down a page using an anchor text. That’s a bit boring and lacks the slickness of modern sites using jQuery. This is where jQuery Local Scroll comes in. jQuery LocalScroll & jQuery [...]

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What are Custom Post Types? Custom Post Post Types or Custom Posts are a great innovation in WordPress that extend the standard functionality of ‘posts’ beyond that of the normal blogging sphere to make WordPress more of a fully fledged Content Management System (CMS). For example in the past where you may have used a [...]

We’re thrilled to hear of the news yesterday (28-Sept-2011) that Google is coming to Old Street – putting them only a few streets from our own office on Curtain Road in Shoreditch! The new Google offices located near the Old Street roundabout (aka Silicon Roundabout) are being heralded as a ‘Start up Centre’ and will [...]

The site  for App Development in the UK has recently launched and we’re proud to say that Slick Media are playing a central role in it’s creation and direction. The site is www.AppDevUK.com and focuses on:- Apple iOS App Development Windows / Windows 7 App Development Google Android App Development Blackberry App Development   More [...]

If you aren’t familiar with Cufon then it’s a method of adding real fonts on your web site via Canvas and VML – no Flash or images are required which makes this a beautiful font replacement option for your web site. If you are looking to simply add Cufon to your web site then get [...]

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Of course all sites need to be thoroughly debugged before they are launched. We test all our sites cross-browser and cross-platform (including iPhone and iPad), but hey perhaps you simply haven’t got the time. To erradicate those pesky Javascript errors from appearing on your browser (and we’re guessing it’s Internet Explorer) simply add the following [...]

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For those of you folks wanting to add rounded corners to HTML elements i.e. DIVs then you’ll probably already know that Webkit Browsers (Safari) and Moz Browsers (Firefox) already handle this with ease like so:- CSS: .round { -moz-border-radius:12px; -webkit-border-radius:12px; } Here’s a nice article explaining this in more detail: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/border-radius/ But as usual Internet [...]

Accept Credit / Debit Cards Online It is surprisingly easy to take credit and debit payments on your web site and in some cases this can be done in a matter of minutes. Whilst there are a number of ways to achieve this we are going to focus on what we consider to be the [...]

What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but [...]

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