Adam Trickett

Website designer & developer

The Blog AKA brain dump

Freelancing The Hard Way #1

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Here's a tip for those working on websites for not-for-profits after hours and other little side projects with other people involved: Do not REPEAT DO NOT work on that gig so much and so hard that you lose sight of… [Read More]

Aside #389

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That other awkward moment when you realise your stylesheet is over 40kb and you haven’t compressed it yet. Bad Adam! {slaps himself}.

Some thoughts on image optimisation

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Firstly, I'm not an expert when it comes to image optimisation. I can export files from Fireworks that are pretty small, and I can judge when not to use images where a little bit of CSS would do the trick,… [Read More]

Custom Post Type 404 you say?

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After moving my WordPress install out of a directory and turning it into a Multisite install, I found the problem that my Portfolio (which is based off a couple of Custom Post Types, vanished without a trace. I wasn't aware… [Read More]

Aside #380

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That awkward moment when you realise that you forgot to re-activate all of your plugins after converting your website into a multisite install, and its been operating in a crippled state for a week or so…

Aside #360

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Some more work done under the hood of this site:

  • Print style sheet removed, reworked, and re-inserted.
  • Mobile plugin installed. I would prefer to create my own stylesheet but I lack a smartphone (I have a tablet though) or testing tools.
  • Some minor bug fixes.