So you’ve created a site and it looks great in Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox and even the horrible Internet Explorer 8, but then you check it in Internet Explorer 6 & 7 and it looks terrible. Now you need to make some CSS tweaks to bring everything in line, but trying to do this universally [...]
We spend a lot of time optimising our client’s sites for the Search Engines and of course Google is always a key area that we focus on. Recently I was checking our own site to ensure that optimisation changes were kicking in as expected and I noticed a new item in the listing. It’s a [...]
It’s interesting that if you type in the keyword ‘Should I use Flash on my web site’ that it pulls up loads of results in Google from way back in 2005 / 2006 and perhaps this is telling in itself – but it’s still an important question that is being asked. Indeed today a client [...]
Tags: content is king, flash
First off WordPress comes loaded with a selection of scripts and these can be found in the wp-includes/js/ directory. WordPress already uses jQuery in the admin area and so it’s already native and can be called easily by the following line of code in your header.php file in the <head> section: <?php wp_enqueue_script(“jquery”); ?> <?php [...]
A quick one for those of you wondering how to sequentially load a list in order with jQuery with animation. First off you’re going to need to include the wonderful jQuery framework between the <head></head> tags of your document and you can download it from here:- Get jQuery OR you can simply hotlink the latest [...]
Unless you hadn’t noticed we’re busy updated our new web site. Yes, we were very happy with our old one, but this is being built on our new FlatPacked (http://www.flatpacked.biz) WP Framework. Why you say?… well we thought we had better practice what we preach and also we thought it important to be able to [...]
Tags: FlatPacked, new web site
When deciding on a direction for delivery good web design one thing the developer often has to consider is which framework will deliver the results and also stand the test of time. For Slick Media this was much like whether to go Open Source with the PHP/MySQL model or ASP/MSSQL model. We chose wisely and [...]
We all know it’s good form to test our development web sites across browsers, but do we all also check across multiple devices such as the iPhone? At Slick Media we try and do just that and we’ll be looking into a few tricks to solve common questions:- Stop text resize on iphone(that makes our [...]
Our friends at W3 Counter (http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php) tell us that Internet Explorer still commands a 44.4% web browser market share and I can’t help asking myself time and time again how that could possibly be. However you try to look at it Internet Explorer continues to be a terrible browser, that is the bane of the [...]
Tags: internet explorer 6.0 png transparency, internet explorer fixes, internet explorer rounded corners
Slick Media are a small, friendly and professional web design and development company based in London, UK. Headed up by Glenn Eastland we are really good at taking new business start ups and SME’s to the next level and beyond.
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