Mereworth & Kings Hill Scout Group

Like every scout, we proudly promised to do our best.

Do you know your straight from your curlies? Using the right quotation marks is just smarter

By Simon Leadbetter, Feb 2013

Marking a passage of text with quotation marks is simple, right? It is… if you know the secret key combination that unlocks the mystical curly quotes. All will be revealed.

Use a Dropbox account to synchronise your Sublime Text 2 settings

By Simon Leadbetter, Feb 2013

A decent text editor is a web designer/developer’s Holy Grail. Everyone has their favourite and being a recent convert to Sublime Text 2, I can say that it’s my new best friend – especially as it’s easy to keep it synchronised between multiple machines.

An alternative for the missing if no_paginate tag

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

ExpressionEngine is great in a million-and-one ways, but if you’ve ever wanted to display content when there is no pagination then you will find there is no native tag for this task. However, this simple work-around does the trick. 

Monster horizontal scroll bars when creating a RTL (right-to-left) layout

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

When we say monster, what we mean is a horizontal scroll bar that is longer than the channel tunnel.

Taylor Associates website

Taylor Associates provide bespoke training courses to the international banking and financial sector. They wanted a website that said they were serious. That resonated with their target audience. That was tailor made.

Web Forms: a great big User Experience brick wall

By Simon Leadbetter, Jan 2013

Web forms are notoriously difficult to get right. In fact, they are invariably seen as the one area of a website that is attributed to a poor user experience and often the primary cause of frustration. So we’ve collated a few tips to help you avoid your web forms becoming an unsurmountable obstacle for your users.

An alternative approach to business stationery

Business cards, compliment slips and a letterhead are the usual staple for a company’s stationery requirements, but Prosell decided to try something slightly different.

Corn Exchange Newbury website

Corn Exchange Newbury were on the hunt for a design partner to help them grow and maintain their website. We were prey willingly caught.

Stretched Google Maps UI? That will be your responsive images

By Simon Leadbetter, Oct 2012

Power Farming welcome emails

New subscribers to Power Farming, the community website from Farmers Weekly, are given a virtual hug and a helping hand with this series of instructional emails.

Simplicity from The Sheriffs Office

Simplicity can be a difficult aspiration to achieve, but on occasions it is possible to attain that holy grail. The Simplicity branding produced for The Sheriffs Office is a simple idea, simply executed.

Creating a default config for Wygwam/CKEditor and linking it to a custom StyleSet

By Simon Leadbetter, Sep 2012

Like many of Pixel & Tonic’s ExpressionEngine add-ons, Wygwam is installed by default on every website we build, however, configuring the Advanced Settings for each Editor was becoming a bind. Until now.

Athena CMRS website

Athena CMRS knew they needed a website for their new company, but they also needed solid advice, reliable support, high quality design and a friendly service. Sounds like a job for Thoughtful Web.

Power Farming marketing page

When you are finding normal farming just isn’t enough, there is now Power Farming. Power Farming is a new website from Farmers Weekly dedicated to farmers or anyone else who happens to like farm machinery.