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Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

Job vacancies at LCN

By Nick De Monte - Business Development Director

We have just added a careers section to the web site where we will publish job vacancies at LCN. Currently we are looking for people to fill the following roles:

Junior Web Designer
Senior Developer - Ruby on Rails
Customer Support Advisor

If you are interested in any of the above roles, instructions on how to apply are on [...]

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Microformats: good things come in small packages!

By Nick De Monte - Business Development Director

The Web 2.0 movement has helped raise the profile of creating standards based designs, using semantic HTML markup to add extra information to the content it contains i.e. data about data, or metadata.
The idea of a semantic web is not a new one Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C were talking about it over 10 years [...]

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Keep track of your visitors!

By Matthew Bilbow - Web Designer

Hey! today im going to talk you through the implementation of a simple hit counter using PHP.
Before we start!
What do you need?
In order to use this tutorial you must have access to a web hosting account that has PHP enabled. If you do not have this check out our dynamic hosting package, it provides everything [...]

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A fond farewell to tables

By Matthew Bilbow - Web Designer

For many years my design process was simple:

Make something pretty (and usually pink) in Adobe Photoshop
Slice it up and save the relevant images
Re-create the design in HTML using tables (I’d usually do this with Dreamweaver)

This process worked well for me, it allowed me quickly and effectively reproduce my design in a language fit for the [...]

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A breath of fresh AIR!

By Nick De Monte - Business Development Director

Adobe AIR has been blowing around the RIA arena for a while now and finally came out of beta at the beginning of the year. The idea is to allow web developers to user their existing tool kit (e.g. HTML, AJAX, Flash, etc.) to build applications that will run on the desktop and are independent [...]

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