Howard Jones – 25th Anniversary...

Howard Jones held his 25th Anniversary concert at the indigoO2 arena recently to celebrate his ‘25 years in music’. In preparation for the concert, I was commissioned to produce a promotional trailer which would be broadcast at the arena itself and also on YouTube™ to advertise the forthcoming event. dtox Records, Howard Jones record company, were extremely happy with the final result, so they further commission me to produce three further videos which would be shown within the actual concert itself; at the very start and during the two intermissions that were...

Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac...

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the Web today, but doing Research and Development (R&D) on the platform can be problematic at best. The reason being is any R&D that you do on a Live WordPress platform has a potential risk of bringing your website down. So, what do you do if you want to create a new theme or test a new plugin to see if it meets your needs? Well, you can install WordPress locally on your Mac so that you can play around with the platform to your heart’s content. Luckily, there is a solution where you don’t need...

The CSS Anthology: Highly recommended...

CSS skills are hard to master these days for numerous reasons. One, there are about half a dozen different ways to achieve the same result that you want, so you are constantly doubting yourself on whether you are using the right one, and two, due to Internet Explorer being ‘non-compliant’, you’ve got mess up your perfect written code to make it render correctly. Well, I came across this book The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks that basically tells you how to accomplish the effect that you desire by using the correct method, the tried and...