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Garlic.js is a great library – it uses localStorage to save the state of forms, so if your users accidentally close the tab or browser before submitting, their entry isn’t…
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There are two things that designers will throw out quite often – box grids with rows, and repeating background colours. Sounds easy – but go and try it within the…
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I decided to write a short follow up from the post from last week about the performance of this site, but framed more as a “how to quickly speed up…
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How many sites do you visit that are full of indecipherable jargon? Littered with cringe worthy stock images, confusing layouts, and slow to load? Beautiful but functionally flawed. How many…
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Custom Creative has had a bit of a makeover. Now my time is largely spent on projects at Helpful Technology I have decided to move the focus of this site…
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Recently at Helpful Technology I was working on the new Foreign Office Blogs website – collapsing their massive WordPress multisite instance down into a standard single site install. When I…
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I’ve been using Cloudflare recently and overall it’s extremely straightforward, but there was one small fly in the ointment – the firewall settings. Currently you can only enter single IPv4…
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One of the things we do at Helpful Technology is provide digital skills training. As part of that we have a sandboxed Twitter style social network platform that allows users…
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Updated 4/6/15 – now with added key/salt generation When deploying a new WordPress site, there are two (potentially) needlessly time-consuming steps – logging in to MySQL to setup a new…
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Very short post to share a few useful links from the weekend, all related to Sublime Text: Nice collection of colour schemes for iTerm / Terminal / Sublime Text (links…