Hello and welcome once again to the second in the on-going series of interviews we're having with coders from around the web. This time, it's Jonno Riekwel, a young designer in Holland. As like last time, please leave all comments below and we'll get back to Jonno in a few weeks to send him the questions you ask. Read the rest of this entry »

In Amazing Coder's first screencast, we explore Twitter and what we can do with it with WordPress using a number of tools, but mainly the highly popular Twitter Tools. Created by Lewis King, the screen cast only skims the surface of what is possible and further possibilities will be taken into account in the next couple of episodes. Read more to see the full video. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone knows how frustrating it is when you visit an incredibly slow website. Watching the bar jump in tiny steps or the cog spin round endlessly is enough to make anyone go mad. Here are 5 ways to speed up your code, for a better end user experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Not content with having the best CSS editor around (CSSEdit), Jan Van Boghout of MacRabbit fame set out to destroy Coda and own top spot for the best XHTML, XML, CSS, JS or XSL editor and FTP Client around. Currently in public beta, Espresso is lacking some of the promised features of the GM release (such as “Sugars”, Espresso’s extension interface).

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What's this? The site loads in under a minute if at all?! No, it's not your eyes, We've changed server! Amazing Coder was recently contacted by Sean McRobbie about swapping advertising space for hosting, we happily agreed. Now, we're hosted on a TrafficSites.co.uk server based here in the UK and you can certainly see the difference! Best of all? It's all at no cost to us! With only an hour or so downtime, The whole site was transferred without a fuss and they run DirectAdmin, which means both me, and Luke understand the admin panel and there is no learning curve, meaning we can focus more on the content. (speed also helps to make that quick edit!) We hope you enjoy the new speed and no longer get frustrated about the loading times. So, one big thank you to Sean would be great, You can find their site over at http://openitc.co.uk/

I, among many have a love hate relationship with CSS. It's simple, powerful and easy to learn, but it's often incredibly frustrating, dare I mention IE6? Annoying as it is, it's the one that I really look forward to coding, so much so, that I'm almost always found in Coda testing things out I've thought of or would like to try. All this playing around has taught me a lot about the language, so much so, that here are 5 ways to make your CSS better. Read the rest of this entry »

Continuing our theme of interviews, I thought it would be an intresting idea to get a recognised and established designer on the site, sheding some light on the contrast between coders and designers; coming up with some pretty good conclusions. So I was looking through my twitter list (yes, again) and I found Grace Smith. I remember about 7 months ago, Grace started following me and we had a little chat over @replies, not much else. As I ramped up the requests for interviews, I sent Grace one and she happily said yes. Grace has been amazing to work with and has kept me up to date on the status of the interview unlike some *cough cough* others. Read the rest of this entry »