25Feb2016
How to implement Gravatar
Gravatar which stands for "Globally Recognized Avatars" is a simple solution for providing universal avatars. This concept is great for websites which use avatars as a secondary function where it's either not worth developing an avatar management system or you believe that your users won't bother to actually set an avatar.
30Nov2015
My first experience with Umbraco Forms
I've been developing Umbraco based systems for over 3 years now but have always been wary of giving clients access to build their own forms via the Content Management System.
30Oct2015
How to Implement a custom Data Layer in Google Tag Manager
In my last blog, I discussed the benefits of using GTM to provide event driven tag management. I'm now going to explain the basics of how to achieve this by using the GTM Data Layer.
30Sep2015
My love/hate relationship with Google Tag Manager
SEO & Marketing companies love Google Tag Manager because they are given free reign over their client's site (or Document Object Model at least) and developers despise GTM for that exact reason.
15May2015
Popular Viewport Settings
The viewport tag is a very important part of responsive web design today and it's arguably equally as important to ensure that your legacy websites are retrofitted with a viewport tag to improve the user experience on mobile devices. Having the correct viewport settings on a fixed site will vastly improve the usability. Here is a quick explanation of the most common viewport properties.
1Apr2015
MotoGP website redesigned for 2015
A quick review of the redesign of one of my favorite sites.
12Mar2015
Free development tools which I can't live without
My favorite free development tools
26Feb2015
12Feb2015
Free Weather API
Looking for the Google Weather API? Unfortunately it's long gone but there are alternatives out there.
30Jan2015
14Jan2015
Umbraco 7 Image Cropper
My first experiences with Umbraco 7 and the new inbuilt image cropping component.
18Dec2014
GIT support in VS2013
My first impressions of using the inbuilt GIT support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.
20Nov2014
Australia Post release US shipping forwarding service
My personal experience with the new Australia Post ShopMate freight forwarder.
24Oct2014
One armed development
Developing websites one handed isn't has easy as it might seem.
20Aug2014
Implementing an SEO friendly maintenance page
Implementing a "down for maintenance" page for your website is an elegant way to handle outages and large deployments. There are some potential hazards which need to be addresses to stay on side with google and your customers.
7Jul2014
Planning for the worst. Websites can fail; accept it.
How to save face when your site tanks - accepting the reality of website outages and planning for the worst.
18Jun2014
How to setup Google DoubleClick for Publishers
How to get started with Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)... from a web developer's point of view.
7May2014
Scraping HTML Content with .net
In theory, parsing HTML content should be quite simple, it's just XML at the end of the day right?
12Mar2014
Mobile device emulation with Firefox
Device emulation in Firefox isn't quite up there with IE and Chrome, though this agent switcher gets it right.
14Jan2014
I’ve created a monster
MVP, getting it done quickly, being creative, cutting corners where corners can be cut. Being generally 'agile' and clever about how we develop and grow out websites is a great thing, but some fundamentals shouldn't be overlooked.
20Jun2013
Securing content the MVC way
I've recently made the the switch from traditional ASP.net webforms to MVC.
21Feb2013
Adaptive Design: the very impressive MVC Display Modes addition to MVC 4
When you have a complex, transactional website with lots of data, a custom approach to adaptive design may well be needed.
26Nov2012
ASP.net Mobile redirects with 51 Degrees
The decision which needs to be made at a high level is to decide whether to tailor your existing site for mobile devices or to split the mobile site off into its own project.
24Aug2012
Don't scare your customers away at the checkout
It's not always about who's got the best price, just as with bricks and motar retailers people are prepared to pay a little more for convenience or better buying experience.
5Jul2012
Slash your page load times with output caching
Output caching is one of the tools and approaches available when it comes to increasing the performance of your website.
17Jun2011
Umbraco: Implementing security in Umbraco CMS Custom Sections
Security is not difficult to implement in the Umbraco CMS is you follow an easy method.
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