No matter how hard you work, luck is needed. Providing you love what you do, just keep on pushing and luck will come. As a freelancer there's been many opportunities that I perceived I was perfect for

Apple have just released their fist 4-core MacBook air. After many weeks of careful deliberation and struggling to decide on which laptop to buy I finally agreed on the MacBook pro, purely for future proofing.

After watching the above YouTube video by the one and only Chris Do I gathered that sometimes I was very 'busy' but not very productive. Time is never stops and without management, falling down the YouTube

@hamann - unsplash Worry is a very fickle thing, one minute you're panicking about your hair slightly receding the next about your PS4 controller about to run out of battery mid way through the last of

WordPress is a privilege to work with, the fact that its free, community driven and still getting stronger after 15 years, understates how powerful the aspect of open source code is. In my opinion its

One of my clients use FoundationPress as their starter WordPress theme, so as a test of my adaptation skills I decided to test it out by building a bespoke WordPress theme based on the designs they provided.

Gulp is a very useful tool to quickly consolidate and automate tedious tasks like compiling Sass or minifying .js files. I've found it very versatile, from creating simple landing pages to custom WordPress

Hello everyone! I'd just like to thank everyone on Steemit, especially my supporters who keep upvoting and commenting on my posts. I really enjoy helping out where I can and sharing knowledge. The internet

Skeleton is a great little CSS boilerplate. Whether there’s no style guide for your next website build or you just want a nice contemporary feel to the base styles, Skeleton is simply… simple. In just

Although not natively supported in every modern browser (IE) clip-path is pretty cool CSS tool to add to your belt. It allows you to simply slice a shape in the provided element, dictated by the values

Below I’ve consolidated a list of 5 jQuery libraries I’ve used abundantly when creating my bespoke WordPress themes or websites for clients. Although react is taking over as the go to Javascript library

Roots sage should be a strong contender for building your custom WordPress themes, read more about this starter theme here. Roots sage makes it remarkably easy to add custom Gutenberg blocks with ACF fields.

After many years of experimenting and getting lost in WordPress, I must say it’s had many ups and many downs and when a another down strikes, a plugin tends to save the day. Below I’ve consolidated a list

From beginning my journey a few weeks back with GatbyJS I instantly fell in love with it. Despite the initial learning curve, if you have a solidish background in JavaScript, react and the ability to follow

Original Article: A simple react class toggle on scroll. Compared to the infamous jQuery, working with react can seem a little abstract at first but with aspects like the 'Virtual DOM' and 'State', I'm

From beginning my front-end journey I've found Git to be the most invaluable piece of software to use. Just thought I'd compile a list of links that will help you learn git with ease. LINKS 1. Git-scm

At some point in your front-end web development journey you might face having to build a bespoke full screen slider. From my experience, Slick and a bit of custom CSS have proven to be very invaluable

Recently I created a pointing arrow animation on a button for a client. When Initially seeing the video demonstrating the animation, I knew straight away it involved opacity, transform and a cheeky bit

If you're just starting out in web development I feel your pain. So much to learn, don't know what to learn and most of all don't know the best place to learn it. All developers have been there, or at

Loaders are useful UI elements to communicate to the user something is loading in. Rather than the content loading in in dribs and drabs, a temporary full screen overlay with a centered loader can be used