Author Archives: Michael Angrave

Resizable Buttons Using CSS Sprites

Michael Angrave shares a little snippet of CSS and HTML commonly used to create resizable buttons with rollover effect. You can download all the files showcased in the demo including the Photoshop files. Continue reading

QR Codes in your Website Design

After months on the sideline, Michael Angrave returns in fine form to bring you an exciting blog post on QR Codes. Experience hands-on interaction by scanning the screen with your iPhone and find out how you can generate QR codes for FREE. Continue reading

Aligning Text Using CSS

Michael Angrave goes back to basics with a simple one for this week’s website design blog post. Here’s a snippet of code outlining the best practice for aligning text both horizontally and vertically using CSS. Continue reading

PHP Christmas Countdown for Ordering

As the busy Christmas season is now upon us, Michael Angrave look’s at a dynamic solution for informing your visitors of how many days they have remaining to ensure they receive their order in time for Christmas. This short tutorial comes with the option to download the HTML, CSS, JPG and PSD for you to use freely within your website design. Continue reading

Website Design Using Effective Marketing

Michael Angrave takes a look at how you can make your website design work for both your clients and their customers by considering practical marketing techniques to enhance the user journey and experience whilst on your website. Take a quick read through how you could apply these ideas to your own creativity. Continue reading

Firefox 4 is coming!

Michael Angrave takes a sneak peak the latest offerings from Mozilla, in the shape of their beta production of Firefox 4. Here are some of the highlights as an insight into what you can expect to see in the final release. Continue reading

Better Website Design with CSS Inheritance

Michael Angrave talks further about CSS Optimisation and how you can code more efficiently and improve your understanding of website design. Take a closer look at CSS’s inheritance characteristic and how it could effect the way that you build on the web. Continue reading

Website Design CMS using Croogo

Michael Angrave takes a look at the new Croogo CMS platform which is open source, free to use and build on CakePHP. With many of the common features that you’d expect from a decent CMS and an intuative and easy to use back end is Croogo any match for Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal? Continue reading

Website Design 3D Inset Navigation Divider

Michael Angrave takes us through this easy tutorial on how to give your navigation separators an inset grooved look using Photoshop. This technique is very simple and can be used for both horizontal and vertical navigation’s and much more more. Continue reading

Supersize Your Website Design

Create stunning full screen background slideshows for your website design using the excellent Supersized JQuery Plugin. Michael Angrave takes a closer look at this fully customisable gem, giving your website or portfolio the wow factor. Continue reading