Web Design, Development and Innovation

For me one of the best updates that came with the iPhone iOS5 update was the addition of:

-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;

What this means is you can ad native touch scrolling to any element. Here’s an example (You’ll have to use your iPhone/iPad to see it):

I’ve had some time to work on the redesign for this site.

With the help of the Forrst community & my friend Julianne Powell it’s coming together very nicely! Click on the pic below to see a high res version of the layout.

I found a great Jquery plugin for creating advanced box shadows:

http://www.bitstorm.org/jquery/shadow-animation/

Very cool, it solves an annoying problem I was having with the new theme of this website.

I’d been looking for a way to animate CSS shadows in a way that simulated a button press, this takes care of the outer and inner shadow and also controls the animation between the up & down states.

Going to give the iOS wordpress app a try. So far I like what I see, though I can’t see it being useful for anything other than quick updates. Also the editor window seems to combine the HTML/visual editor of WordPress in a bizzare way.

At any rate, the add image/video feature is pretty good. I’d recommend it for a blog that just does “status update” style posts.

Just put up the coming soon page for my wife’s website – Kia Groat Gold Coast Photographer

I’ll be working on the wordpress theme for the rest of the day – them working to make the theme available for download!

Keep Posted!

It’s important that search engines are able to read and interpret your site correctly. The best way to guarantee this is with an .xml sitemap. This is effectively a “contents page” for your site, providing a list of links to all of the pages/posts in your site in a convenient format for search engines.

To make it easy to keep on top of updating your sitemap (and submitting it to search engines) I would recommend using a plugin that can automate the whole process. One that I have been using for some time now is Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress.

Welcome to the first post on my personal portfolio site.

The usual procedure when setting up a wordpress blog would be to delete the “hello world” test post. I opted to capitalize on the irony – given the nature of this site – and leave it in… It was funnier in my head.

Hello world!