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  • Notting Hill and Bayswater

    April 2025

    A set of monochrome photographs documenting a walk I took from Notting Hill to Bayswater in March 2025.

  • That London

    April 2025

    Spending an afternoon in London, paying attention to the city itself without reminiscing about the past.

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    Responsive viewport height workaround for the WordPress Cover Block

    March 2025

    Working around a problem on the WordPress Cover block when the viewport height is too small.

  • Silver How and Lang How from Grasmere

    March 2025

    A wet and cold walk to a small Wainwright fell in January 2019.

  • Winter sun at Sunnbüel

    March 2025

    Hiking in the snowy mountains above Kandersteg in February.

  • Jo photographing the view from Loweswater Fell to Crummock Water

    Low Fell from Thackthwaite

    March 2025

    A gentle autumn walk to wonderful views across Lorton Vale and Crummock Water.

  • Kyle of Lochalsh from the Central Belt

    March 2025

    The driving route on the third day of our autumn holiday in 2024 was pretty spectacular.

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    Using context variables in SCSS

    February 2025

    Using namespaced mixins and context variables in an SCSS build process.

  • 83,000 photos of London

    83,000 photos of London

    February 2025

    A photography team has put together a mesmerizing flow motion timelapse of London, deploying novel techniques to tell the story of the U.K. capital.

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    Building a WordPress website for a client: creating a streamlined editorial experience

    February 2025

    WordPress offers a huge range of features and options for users, but that can often be overwhelming for clients. We can assist them by providing curated editorial experiences.

  • Alone at Hardendale

    January 2025

    A short break and brief drone flights above the farmland in the sunset near the highest point of the UK motorway network.

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    Six years under my own steam

    January 2025

    Five-and-a-half years after joining Say Hello, I took on sole ownership of the company last summer. The past five months have been more successful than I’d even hoped.

  • The Sam Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness

    December 2024

    Saving and spending more money on better quality things makes more economic sense than buying lower-quality items.

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    Getting preset aspect ratios in the WordPress Block Editor

    November 2024

    I’ve been working on a custom image carousel block for a WordPress client, and wanted to add the built-in aspect ratios as a drop-down control.

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    Aliasing WordPress CSS custom properties

    November 2024

    How to use CSS custom property aliases in WordPress to reduce the size of your own custom CSS.

  • Life and How To Live It

    November 2024

    A touching story behind one of my favourite R.E.M. songs.

  • Thames Path at Godstow

    October 2024

    Stretching my legs on the Thames Path in Oxfordshire.

  • Canisp from Loch Awe

    September 2024

    Spontaneously changing my plans for a day’s hiking to achieve the summit of Canisp, a large and rocky hill in the Assynt region of Scotland.

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    Building a WordPress site for a client: separating content from design

    September 2024

    Using custom post types in combination with the Block Editor in WordPress for easy content management, irrespective of design changes.

  • Getting rid of the “save” button

    September 2024

    How improving micro-interactions can smooth the process for your (web) application users.

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    Using block style variations in WordPress to allow shared modifications later on

    September 2024

    How to use presets instead of custom CSS in WordPress to allow blocks to retain a common design, whilst supporting amendments later in the project’s timeline.

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Mark Howells-Mead is a WordPress designer and developer based in Switzerland. Mark has been building websites and web-apps for nearly 30 years and has over 20 years of experience building websites for small and medium-sized businesses using WordPress. He is fluent in English, German and Swiss German, having moved to the Swiss Alps in 2001.

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