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Personal Website

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I have recently been working on and updating my personal website, I have decided to role back to my very first domain name lukewakeford.co.uk as it is a personal domain and is work directly related to myself. wezdezign.com was a initial idea for a company name years ago but now i feel it is slightly out dated.

I have been working hard to make the site look really clean and function smoothly, I have designed the navigation and the pages to showcase the work by keeping the colour scheme grayscale and only adding colour within the product images.

Print Style Sheets

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Recently my work has included re-writing stylesheets for pages that display a list of data, there are some obvious plus sides to using these stylesheets, they enable very easy printing of information, and they remove the need for some PDF printing scripts. It makes the process very fast as it is just re-styling the information to fit and print nicely.

I found some great information on using print stylesheets on webdesignerdepot.com not used the site before but after a quick google they came up trumps. to see their post on print stylesheets go here > http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/01/10-tips-for-better-print-style-sheets/

The next step to integrate this into a button on a website will be to find out how to trigger a browsers print function, similar to the keyboard shortcut CTRL + P / CMD + P / File > Print.

Markdown, Haml. & Sass.

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Recently I have been introduced to a few languages and formatting scripts that are really useful, I have met Markdown before via stackoverflow, however didn’t know how useful it was until I started using it to write documentation online.

Markdown http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Markdown is simply a formatting language used within html that allows you to format pages very quickly and simply. I am thinking about integrating it into my blogs and websites for ease of use and editing.

Haml. http://haml-lang.com/
I am very new to haml, however i can already see its advantages it is a shorthand HTML compiler. It allows you to write code really quickly and neatly.

Sass. http://sass-lang.com/
‘Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets’ or Sass is a way to add nesting and other exciting tricks to your CSS. It makes styling stuff a lot easier.