Ever needed to show a link to the latest post dynamically in the text editor in WordPress? Shortcodes are great little tools and easy to create, firstly you need to load up your themes functions page and add the following code. What you will see if your shrewd is the WordPress query code, the arguments [...]

Sometime when editing your custom WordPress theme you may want to list the latest posts and highlight the post when your on that post / page. This can be done by firstly setting up your CSS to style a link how you want it when its current Next you need to generate your list and [...]

When creating a menu or header text the client may wish for a font or effect not possible using standard web approaches. This maybe a drop shadow, gradient, glow or simply a non standard web font. In most cases an image will look softer and in most peoples view better looking than standard browser generated [...]

IE6 Users We hate it, we want to stop developing for it, but the sad truth is we can not blame all IE6 users for using it as its not always their fault they are still on IE6. Only last week I was round my mothers and had to put my IT support hat on, [...]

The arrival of a new contract never fails to create a buzz around the Scotchegg office and throwing ourselves whole heartedly into any task big or small is just what we do, but every so often a new job comes along that pushes our capabilities both creatively and technically to a whole new level. Our [...]

Conceptual IPhone Joystick Design! There is no doubt this will be a big year for Apple with and the IPhone, with more network carriers now pushing the IPhone its going to be in more hands than ever before. With this will come more applications and of course more games. However the biggest issue with applications [...]

Twitter for your business Love it or hate it, Twitter could have an important part to play in networking your business. Despite being firmly in the glare of the media spotlight for the past 12 months it is easy to overlook the potential opportunity for networking and lead generation via Twitter, and as more and [...]

Google Instant Website results Google will now show you real time search results while you type your query. The idea behind this is that people read faster than they can type, so in showing results earlier it may save you time. But before you go planning what your are going to do with all this [...]

WordPress is a great Content Management and Blog solution for a web development platform when used correctly. Wordpress can give you a great code platform and foundation for a CMS and Blog functionality, but of course you can tweak WordPress to your own specific needs and add a few nice little features to your custom [...]