Maintenance Pages and the .htaccess Redirect

Sometimes when working on a new website or performing maintenance on a live site it’s necessary to redirect that  websites visitors to a default page or directory and hide the rest of the website from public view. One of the best ways to accomplish this is with a .htaccess file. Let’s start at the top. [...]

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HTML and jQuery Scrolling Websites

5 Great Examples of Scrolling Websites With jQuery

Over the past couple of years scrolling websites have been all the rage amongst designers and developers alike. When combined with lightweight JavaScript libraries like jQuery or MooTools,  fantastic design and great content, these fun and interactive websites can pack quite a visual and interactive punch. Below are five fantastic examples of what a great [...]

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Sitepoint Sexy Web Design

Book Review: Sexy Web Design

This week I finally had some free time to sit down and get some serious reading in. I have had a copy of “Sexy Web Design” on my coffee table for what seems like ages and I have been promising myself to read it for quite some time. Published by Sitepoint and written by Elliot [...]

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CSS Link Tutorial

Quick Tip: CSS Link Order

Hyperlinks, they make the web go round and without them it would be near impossible to navigate across the internet. Yet as important as they are a lot of developers seem to have difficulty styling them properly with CSS. At Engines of Creation, we receive a lot maintenance requests for websites that we did not [...]

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