19When using channels to mask an object from a fairly simple background but one that is too complex for the wand or color range tools there is a technique that can be used to cut down the amount of time you spend brushing into the areas you want to mask and the calculations command is the key to this, here’s how it works.
12With a little CSS and JQuery you can create a pretty cool drop down menu for your sub categories or pages in your wordpress themes. Here’s how…
7While redesigning my site recently I wanted to display a list of just the titles and dates for each article on the archives page. This was easy enough but as I have my settings set to show 5 posts per page I was getting just that a list of the latest 5 and a link to show more which looked a bit crap to say the least. Looking through the codex for a quick fix didn’t bring up anything obvious so I had to somehow create a new query to display the number of posts I wanted from each category. However I needed to also pass the new query the category name else I would just end up with posts from every category. Here’s how I did it…
6jQuery provides some pretty cool effects which can be achieved with very little code. Here is a cool pop down tab style menu you can use with some simple css and a touch of jQuery.
24Redesigning my site recently led me to add a twitter badge in the sidebar showing my most recent tweets. Searching on google for a nice simple php approach to pulling them returned lots of bloated classes and functions that I really didn’t feel happy using so I decided to pick through the twitter API and figure it out for myself. I ended up with a simple class that can be used to access the date and text of a given number of tweets and also the user link.
My name is Phil Parsons and I live in London UK. I started this site to showcase my favourite work projects but never seem to be able to find time to put anything together. Maybe one day soon I'll stop procrastinating and sort this site out!
