Recent posts by Jamie Hamel-Smith

Speeding Up Home Page RSS Feeds

Your home page is a great place to display a custom feed that shows your recent blog posts, tweets and news. If you work in PHP, then there’s a great tool called SimplePie that eases… More

Extending SlideDeck – Part 2: Remembering The Current Slide

SlideDeck is a great tool for showing progress through a process. If your visitor abandons your SlideDeck halfway through (hey, it happens) you might want to remember where they left off. That way you can… More

Agile Approaches to Content Management

When building a site around a CMS or Content Management System, there are many options available, but we must understand that when using a plug and play system, we need to take the good with… More

Extending SlideDeck – Part 1: Controlling The Deck

SlideDeck is an awesome tool for displaying information on a web page, but there are times when you might want to exercise additional control over your deck. Our lead developer Dave has done a great… More

3 Usability Hurdles We Simply Must Kick Over & Crunch Into a Pile of Splinters!

As web users, you are all aware of the horrid things that web designers, developers and advertisers put you through. These are the top 3 things that they need to stop doing! 3. Post-Roll Advertisements… More

Top 5 Things to Consider When Choosing Shared Web Hosting

When it comes to hosting your website, there are three main options available to you: Dedicated Hosting (A physical computer just for you.), A Virtual Private Server (Where many dedicated-style servers are emulated in software… More