Category: Blog

Using Garlic.js with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor

07 – 12 – 16

Garlic.js is a great library – it uses localStorage to save the state of forms, so if your […]
Uses of modulus – rows for grids and background colours

07 – 09 – 16

There are two things that designers will throw out quite often – box grids with rows, and repeating […]
Performance revisited – 3 easy steps to speed up your site

30 – 05 – 16

I decided to write a short follow up from the post from last week about the performance of […]
Accessibility fundamentals. AKA building, designing and writing for real people.

26 – 05 – 16

How many sites do you visit that are full of indecipherable jargon? Littered with cringe worthy stock images, […]
New look – a focus on text and speed

24 – 05 – 16

Custom Creative has had a bit of a makeover. Now my time is largely spent on projects at […]
Showing an Author only their comments in WordPress

31 – 07 – 15

Recently at Helpful Technology I was working on the new Foreign Office Blogs website – collapsing their massive […]
Bulk updating Cloudflare’s firewall rules

06 – 06 – 15

I’ve been using Cloudflare recently and overall it’s extremely straightforward, but there was one small fly in the […]
RegEx to match / link Twitter usernames and hashtags

03 – 05 – 15

One of the things we do at Helpful Technology is provide digital skills training. As part of that […]
Bash script to configure MySQL database and install WordPress

03 – 05 – 15

Updated 4/6/15 – now with added key/salt generation When deploying a new WordPress site, there are two (potentially) […]
Colour schemes, plugins, expandrive

13 – 04 – 15

Very short post to share a few useful links from the weekend, all related to Sublime Text: Nice […]