Author Archives: Peter Wilson

About Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson is a Web Developer based in Melbourne, Australia. He co-founded Web Production firm Soupgiant with Josh Kinal in October 2009.

Behind the Websites: Rounded Corners Everywhere

Similar support of rgba and border-radius in modern browsers allows us to use both the old graphical and new css3 methods for rounded corners. This gives us the same look in almost all browsers.

Business: Confirming a caller’s identity

The ATO called me last week and asked for my middle name and date of birth to confirm my identity. I told the operator that I wasn’t in the habit of giving out my personal details to incoming callers.

Content Strategy: 10 Ways to Draw Traffic to Your Site

Once you’ve started your site, your blog, or real time web app, there’s no point publishing and just hoping people will come.

Business: Never too old

At 94, my granddad decided to get a computer and onto the internet.

Dedicated to R Feltscheer, 1-1-1912 – 22-11-2009.

Business: Craig McLachlan, Who Knew?

This week, Boxcutters featured Craig McLachlan as their guest, in the process providing a great example of the advantages of podcasting.

Behind the Websites: Charging for themes? Do the right thing!

Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.

Behind the Websites: Partying like it’s 1999

Within a couple of months of writing that I prefered my own base JavaScript file to an exisiting framework, I was a convert to jQuery. Why the turnaround?

Business: Genesis of a Giant

Deciding to start Soupgiant resulted from a simple conversation – actually two simple conversations.

Business: How to get 4.3 stars for customer service!

I’m about to give a positive review to Soupgiant’s host, QuadraHosting, due to their customer service, despite some major technical problems in recent months. This leads to one question: Am I being too nice?

Behind the Websites: Including WordPress’s comment-reply.js (the right way)

Since threaded comments were enabled in Wordpress 2.7, most themes check if the visitor is browsing either a page or a post and adds the JavaScript required for threaded comments if they are.

I prefer a slight variation