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With the new techniques in CSS3 and clever applications of existing CSS it is increasingly stepping on the toes of JavaScript. Which to be honest isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I thought I’d try my hand at something so here is a basic CSS tabbed content section that changes on hover.
Having attended the “For a beautiful web” workshop in Newcastle I was very impressed with Andy Clarke and as such there’ll probably be a few more posts on here related to the stuff I picked up from the day and I would highly recommend anyone who can to attend a workshop or see Andy speaking if they get chance.
For those who don’t know, the workshop was all about using new technologies such as CSS3 and central to everything was the fact that websites don’t have to look the same in every browser. (Check out http://dowebsitesneedtobeexperiencedexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/)
I was convinced, the arguments for progressing and using this new stuff are great but I left and my first thought was “well it’s all right for Andy he gets good clients, but I couldn’t start doing that with our clients”. Which I’m sure is what a lot of other people think straight off, and then I did a bit more thinking and realised that was the stupidest thing I’ve possibly ever thought to myself. Continue reading
Mopay are the original and first mobile phone recycling website setup in the UK. They offer customers the chance to trade in their old mobiles for cash.
Mopay have a need for both Flash and Gif banners for their own site, advertising campaigns and for their affiliate network.
The banners are first storyboarded from initial ideas presented by the mopay team and once approved converted into the animated banners.
The GIF banners are produced statically in different sizes before being optimized for display as lower quality GIF images.
A Flash MPU for off site advertising.
Having completed a website for Wineberg the Tailors we were asked to do a site for another of the companies’ businesses Stamford Clothiers who specialise in plus two’s, plus four’s and breeks for shooting and golfing communities.
The site offers made to measure and ready to wear clothing in a variety of different cloths and also ready to wear stockings.
Built on the popular eCommerce platform TradingEye the site has been given a custom layout and various customised areas and modifications from TradingEye including modified search functionality.
The site has added JavaScript functionality such as accordions and mouse over menus and the Google Analytics setup includes conversion, eCommerce and search tracking.
Following the site launch an email marketing newsletter and offline advertising has seen the site get off the ground with a flurry of orders.
![I [heart] Trading Eye](http://www.kamikazemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/blog_tradingeye.jpg "I [heart] Trading Eye")
Another Trading Eye hack for today. Very nicely the guys at DPI Vision have spent plenty of time making the URL’s search engine friendly. They’ve also done it with the site search however and if you want to track your search in Google Analytics (and you should do!) then you need to reverse that change.
But fear not it’s pretty straightforward! – Read on. Continue reading