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I'm a graphic designer from Melbourne with a passion for logo design, brand identity, web and print, working worldwide.

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The “nofollow” html attribute explained

Posted May 22nd, 2009.

no follow web links

“nofollow” is a html attribute for hyper links which causes the link not to pass any credit that will improve the target sites ranking in search engines. Selfish you say? No. Read on to find out why. Continue reading...

5 watery webpage designs

Posted May 17th, 2009.

website design 2

A little watery web inspiration for us all. I would think water is a fairly uncommon theme on the internet, take a look at these 5 great sites, perhaps you’ll use a watery theme for your next web project?

Thanks to Ek & Gren, Design Disease, Get Me Fast, Tomas Pojeta and
Quinns Reef Bed & Breakfast for their inspiring websites. Continue reading...

Fixing the IE6 whitespace bug

Posted May 14th, 2009.

internet explorer 6 web design

As any web designer will tell you, Internet Explorer, especially version 6, is the bane of our existence (you can actually buy “i hate IE 6″ tee-shirts now). Unfortunately for us, around 60% of web users are using Internet Explorer as their default browser and around 15% are still on IE6.

If you’ve played with web design to any extent you’ve probably experienced some of Internet Explorers renowned problems for yourself. Continue reading...

Customizing your WordPress login

Posted April 26th, 2009.

change your wordpress login
This is just a little tip for your own fun, or a clients added satisfaction.

At the time of writing, the current wordpress version is 2.7.1, to change the logo displayed in your login panel open the file /wp-admin/images/logo-login.gif and replace it with your own logo.

Some older versions used the files login-bkg-tile.gif and login-bkg-bottom.gif, and future versions may change again so you may have to look for these files instead if you are running a different version. Continue reading...

3 great free wordpress themes

Posted April 25th, 2009.

coffee desk wordpress theme
It can be tough to find a good wordpress theme among the sea of choices out there. Here are a few choice selections by Alex over at Template Lite.

All the themes are free for personal use only ( with some restrictions ) and so I picked a few that were a bit less professional and a bit more personal. Starting with the above pictured Coffee Desk. Continue reading...

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