Ross McNeil

I enjoy website design, development and validation.

Procrastination At Its Best

It’s been over 2 months now since I last updated my blog, and I feel like an update is in order.

For me… Updating a blog is hard. It’s hard whilst also trying to make a living.

I’ve been rather busy over the past couple of months creating new websites and projects like this and this.

I find it quite difficult to think of new and interesting subjects for articles, especially articles that haven’t really been written already elsewhere on the internet. I don’t really like recycling/stealing already written tutorials. More…

How To: Create A Fixed (Sticky) Header

Using the CSS ‘fixed position’ attribute we can create fixed headers that’ll stay in the same position even when we scroll down the page.

#header {
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
}

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Edit The CSS Of Live Websites

I have a very bad habit of going to any website and start changing around the CSS to see what I can do with it. It’s really easy to do this with Google Chrome’s Inspect Element tool (it’s what I use) – I’ve heard Firebug for Mozilla Firefox is quite good too. And I think there’s even a similar tool for IE9. More…

Quick Tip: Change The WP Admin Menu So It’s Fixed

Very quick tip that I thought I would document in case anyone else is looking for a way to fix the admin menu so it sticks when you scroll down the page.

All you need to do in this case is change the position of the menu to fixed. More…

Move The Position Of The WP Admin Bar

I recently wanted to do this to suit my new website design, as the top of my screen looked a little cramped. I just started playing around with the CSS in Chrome’s inspect element, and I realised it was quite easy to do. So I thought I would share it with you. More…