Author Archives: Peter Wilson
About Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson is a Web developer based in Melbourne, Australia, and started making Websites in 1994.
Peter co-founded web production studio Soupgiant in 2009 and forms opinions on all things web at Big Red Tin.
Quick Notes: Big Red Framework
April 28, 2011
We’ve updated the base WordPress theme we use at Soupgiant for WordPress 3.1+ and to make more use of the WordPress API. Along with the standard features you would expect in a WordPress framework, it includes templates for the Theme My Login plugin, custom default code for Formidable / Formidable Pro plugins, custom html output [...]
Quick Notes: Guest Post on Digging into WordPress
February 11, 2011
Jeff and Chris have been kind enough to publish Hosting Client Sites on a WordPress Network as a guest post on Digging into WordPress.
Quick Notes: Caching Google’s WebFont Loader
December 15, 2010
As with Google’s other hosted libraries, providing a more specific version number of webfont.js will effect browser caching.
Tags: @font-face, caching, fonts, google, JavaScript, WebFont loader
Quick Notes: Soupgiant WordPress themes on Github
December 14, 2010
The Soupgiant base WordPress themes are now available on GitHub. There’s no documentation at this stage, I’ll write up a blog post with details in the coming week.
Behind the Websites: HTML5: I couldn’t (quite) do it
December 13, 2010
I found it difficult to use pure and semantic HTML5 when dealing with current versions of Internet Explorer. I really tried to adopt the commonly advocated view that it’s okay to require website visitors have JavaScript enabled but settled on a different option I could actually live with.
Tags: Accessibility, CSS, html, html5, JavaScript, usability
Behind the Websites: Selectivizr with CSS on a sub-domain
October 25, 2010
Updating the Soupgiant base WordPress theme recently (among other things we were porting it to HTML5), we needed to decide which shims and/or polyfills to use. We starterd with Remy Sharp’s HTML5 enabling script but another to consider was Selectivizr to improve IE‘s support of CSS3 selectors.
Behind the Websites: A half-baked (CSS) idea
September 21, 2010
Spritebaker has done the rounds a fair bit in web development circles over the past few weeks. It’s a great idea, done well. The only problem is it has the strange effect of making it seem like the page is actually taking longer to load. I take a look at a possible solution.
Tags: coding, CSS, data-URIs, JavaScript
Business: Why we host Big Red Tin on US servers
September 15, 2010
Previously I wrote about sticking with an Australian web hosting provider. Soon after I relocated the Soupgiant sites to an American service provider. Situations change and so I thought I’d explain why.
Tags: boxcutters, Linode, Media Temple, QuadraHosting, web hosting
Behind the Websites: jQuery 1.5 as jQuery 1.5.0
September 7, 2010
When jQuery 1.4 was released, the Google URL being publicised by the jQuery team was http://…/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js – while Google had set it up as http://…/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js. I had problems with this seemingly minor difference.
Tags: caching, google, JavaScript, jQuery