Tag Archives: web

Homepage Design: How to make an impact

By Mark Goddard | Published: November 6, 2009
Yesterday I launched the brand new homepage of my portfolio. It was a long time in the making trying to get everything looking good and now I’m going to explain the reasons behind the design, how I came to it and how you can apply the same techniques.
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Developing for multiple browsers *sigh*

By Mark Goddard | Published: October 31, 2009
I know it’s unfortunately the “taboo” of modern website design, but many developers don’t want to simply leave their IE7 visitors and IE6 visitors in the dark. It’s fine for sites like this one, or for web applications but what about corporation websites? For sites that HAVE to support older/alternative browsers. This came to light [...]
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University is over! (for a year anyway)

By Mark Goddard | Published: July 6, 2009
So University is done and dusted for 2009. I won’t be returning until September 2010 which makes for a nice break. In the end I got my grades (A,A,B,B,B,C) which I was very happy with. To top all this off I thought I’d showcase some of the work I did to receive these grades. Visual [...]
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New design for a new career

By Mark Goddard | Published: June 10, 2009
Well, the 1st June saw me start my new job as Innovations Web Developer at Result Group in Elland. I decided that to mark the occasion I’d start by going crazy with my on-line development. It has seen me redesign the Arctic Monkeys Fansite, build a brand new website for Cliffe Kennels, build a Twitter/Twitpic/img.ly/yfrog [...]
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php.ini and Undefined Variable errors

By Mark Goddard | Published: March 12, 2009
It all started with a new server. After setting up and installation everything was working fine, until I read the error_log files in the servers logs. There were loads and loads of error messages reporting that there were “undefined variables” throughout every script on the server. Strange! It ended up being very easy to fix…
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10 Web Design NO NO’s

By Mark Goddard | Published: August 21, 2008
The web has changed a lot and web designers (of all people) know about the need to keep up to date with the latest design “trends”. This short 10 point guide will hopefully help some people understand the minor problems website design (and content) brings when being viewed by a potential customer. Pointless Flash Animation [...]
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Tank wars, more like web wars!

By Mark Goddard | Published: August 13, 2008
Many of you may be familiar with the current conflict in Gerogia at the moment involving the russians. Turns out it’s not just a conflict involving tanks and guns, oh no. The Moscow Times (you did read that correctly) has just reported on a Russian DDoS attack on Georgian Government servers.
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