In WordPress a child theme is simply a theme that inherits style and functionality from it’s parent theme. All you really need to create a child theme is a style.css file in the themes directory of your WordPress installation. This quick article will show you situations in which child themes might be useful and how [...]
Author Archives: jmz
Design resources for developers
As a developer, I find it really easy to picture in my head how a system should work, how the code should be structured etc but I must admit I do sometimes struggle to make my creations aesthetically appealing. Luckily there are loads of generous people on the internet who are happy to make beautiful [...]
jQuery Tagging Plugins
If you have an application where people add a lot of data, organising this data to make it easy for people to find what they want can be difficult. One simple solution that can make organising and finding this data simple is to allow your users to add tags to each item. I was looking [...]
What I’ve been up to
I know it’s been a while since my last post and in that post I said I was hoping to open registration for my new app soon, well it turns out I’m too much of a perfectionist and I don’t want to release it until I’m totally happy with it. I’ve actually been using it [...]
New site almost ready!
Over the past few months I’ve been working on a new little app. Yes a few months is a long time to spend on a ‘little’ app but I’ve been working on it by myself and only in my spare time, also my designing skills definitely aren’t on par with my development skills so designing stuff takes [...]