I wrote an article a while ago called “the anatomy of a jQuery plugin“, since then I have written a few jQuery plugins of my own, which I would now like to share with you. The first in the series is called ‘truncatable‘. Simply put truncatable is a lightweight truncation plugin for jQuery. Designed for users who want to be able to hide and expand text on a page. This plugin is very SEO friendly, and ideal for environments where it is not possible to use PHP. Continue Reading »

Welcome to the odin version 4. I have been planning this for a  long time, but finally I managed to make room to sit down and start again. I am now running the entire site on wordpress as it has many advantages with plugins and statistics. You may notice my branding has also changed somewhat, as I wanted to give a more defined brand and feeling to the odin. Continue Reading »

Being able to come up with truely unique ideas is a very difficult thing to achieve. However there is nothing wrong in taking inspiration from things you see around you, in fact most good teachers of design will encourage this. I have put together a roundup of some of my favrioute places to find inspiration for business card design. Continue Reading »

As a rule I’m not usually a massive fan of frameworks, and my first thoughts on the 960 grid system were ‘why bother?’. If you know how to hand code HTML and CSS and you have a copy of Photoshop, that should be all you need. Well here I am today to tell you how naive and wrong I was, and here is 4 reasons why! Continue Reading »

Author: Hasin Hayder

Publisher: PACT

Rating: 4/5 stars

Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications is a PACT published book available to buy on amazon. Although the book has been available for some time I thought I would take the opportunity to review it. If you are familiar with template languages you will know there are a lot out there. Smarty however has earned its place as one of the key players and is used across many business platforms. Continue Reading »

I am delighted to announce that I have had my new business cards published on the creattica gallery. Please feel free to go and check it out. I am really greatful to the guys over at the envato for giving designers the platform to display their work.

I am hoping to have some more work to share with you soon, I cant give too much away at the moment. But if you are interested then please feel free to follow me on twitter.