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Schloss Laufen and the Rhine Falls
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Information and tips for photographing the large Rhine waterfalls at Neuhausen, near the northern border of Switzerland.
“Comment spam” is a term which relates to automatically-generated website comments. People with too much time on their hands make software to submit to websites like mine. It’s then down to me to ensure that the nonsensical or downright abusive comments don’t appear on my website, and that my email inbox doesn’t get swamped with
In an effort to share more of my work with the open source community, I’m gradually starting to submit more plugins to the WordPress Plugin Directory. The latest addition, approved recently and made public today, is a plugin which extends the backend list view with a small thumbnail-sized preview of the post thumbnail (where one is
Technical case study: CSS Flexbox for BEKB Flash
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CSS Flexbox has been ready for mainstream use for a while now, and I’ve implemented it on a third client project for my employer.
Comment subscriptions on Permanent Tourist
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I’ve added a feature to the site which allows you to get an email when someone replies to a comment you’ve left on this site. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
Life without JavaScript
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Many web developers (and web project managers) are insistent that we shouldn’t be concerned with the availability of JavaScript in the browser. “Who turns off JavaScript these days?” is often the argument. The problem isn’t related to who turns off JavaScript, but what happens when a CDN copy of jQuery isn’t available – the server
Silver Efex Pro
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The image editing tool Silver Efex Pro has long been a much-used and highly recommended solution for converting digital (or scanned colour) images to black and white. There are many detailed options for conversion, including specific settings for reproducing the effect of old black and white photographic films like those from Ilford or Agfa. Google acquired
Jesus is…
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A current poster campaign by the Swiss Christian Action Committee is hanging across the country. Much of the poster is left empty, with the intention that it should be graffitied, in answer to the prompt “Jesus is…”. The accompanying website offers people the same opportunity to give their opinion on what they see Jesus to be.
Flickr settings fields plugin for WordPress
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A technical goal for 2016 is to make more WordPress plugins, and to submit them to the official WordPress plugin repository, so that other users can benefit from them. The next addition to the set of plugins I’ve contributed is a simple one to add fields to the Settings » Media screen in the WordPress backend for Flickr
Sicherheit rund um WordPress
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Notizen aus dem letzten Treffen der Berner WordPress-Gruppe. Das nächste Treffen (Thema WordPress Themes) findet morgen Donnerstag Abend statt. Sicherheit rund um WordPress – 24.02.2016
Augen zu und durch
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It’s no shock to realise that I’ve been commuting to Bern by car for nearly six years. But what is a shock is that the period of changing from train travel to car travel coincides with the main rise of the smartphone. When I was commuting to Bern between 2008 and the end of 2010,
Web developers: don’t depend on dependencies
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Building a website or app based on third-party code and solutions may work… but what happens when that code breaks or becomes unavailable?
Store your design assets in one place with Lingo
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The new Lingo app (from The Noun Project) allows you to collate and manage your design assets in one place.
Bern’s Lorraine quarter
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The Lorraine quarter in Bern, not far from my office, used to be the trendy area in which to live, meet, dine and hang out. These days, a lot of the trendies seem to have moved on, but the quarter is still a nice network of little streets in which to take a stroll. Despite the
A fresh eye
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This year’s aim: see new places and try new things. Close to home, this means going out from home and documenting the village where I live as much as possible. Despite living here for nearly five years, the only parts of Faulensee I’ve really photographed have been the views from above the village or from home.
EMs and REMs and CSS media queries
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The key principles behind the complex relationship between pixel-based and relative sizing units in CSS for web design.
Vertical rhythm in web typography
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…doesn’t have anything to do with jumping up and down to music. Sadly. Typographic principles are just as valid in designing for the web as they are in designing for traditional media. Through the application of a very simple mathematical principle, a design becomes more peaceful and the visitor is calmed by a subliminally identifiable pattern. (Our
There is no perfect dropdown
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Andy Budd made a very important point during episode 93 of The Web Ahead podcast. In it, he’s answering a question raised about where a less-experienced web designer can find resources to see what the current “best practices” are for site element design.
