Art and Design by Matthew James Taylor

Welcome to matthewjamestaylor.com. This is the place where I bring together my two biggest passions in life; art and web design... I hope you enjoy my work. - Matt =)

• CSS Reddit Alien - only 8KB! An animated Reddit alien logo I created from pure CSS and text
• Drupal Themes of my Ultimate Liquid Layouts Thanks to Gaus Surahman my ultimate liquid layouts are now available for download as themes for the Drupal CMS
• Microformats: for better SEO and the semantic web Commentary on the latest developments in Microformats and their adoption by Google
• The synesthesia condition explained by Vilayanur Ramachandran A fascinating presentation explaining how cross-wiring in the brain is the cause of the synesthesia condition
• Five quick ways to get a new website indexed by Google If your launching a brand new website that no-one knows about yet then try these great indexing tips
• Link Source Ordering: Focus link popularity onto key pages with SEO Master link source ordering and you will be able to redirect link popularity to key pages in your website
• Optimise your home tab text for better SEO This is a great little SEO trick for your navigation bar that will work for almost every website and particularly larger websites
• 4 methods of adding CSS to HTML: link, embed, inline and import A short tutorial explaining the pros and cons of the four main methods of adding CSS to HTML
• Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS and No Hacks A step by step tutorial explaining how to create multicolumn layouts with divs and CSS where every column is the same height
• Converting special characters to HTML entities between code tags in PHP A PHP function I wrote to allow HTML snippets between code tags in any textarea. This would be very useful for blog admin pages.
• The Holy Grail Liquid-Layout, No Quirks Mode A new version of my 3 column liquid layout that does not use quirks mode or IE conditional comments
• Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser. A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
• 'Split Page' 3 column CSS liquid-layout An unusual web page design that is the inverse of the Holy Grail liquid-layout.
• Adobe Dreamweaver CSS rendering bug A courtesy warning for web designers using Dreamweaver with my liquid layouts
• How to convert a liquid-layout to a fixed-width design with simple CSS A simple CSS tutorial showing how to change between fixed-width and liquid-layouts with the use of a container div
• A 'Liquid' List Apart A liquid layout would be much more accessible and user-friendly for the 'A List Apart' website, see my mockup.
• Ultimate multi-column liquid layouts (em and pixel widths) A new series of solid layouts that use pixel and em widths for columns. SEO friendly. No CSS hacks. Free for anyone to use.
• Print out your own MacBook Air Can't afford a MacBook Air? Print out one for free!
• How to post forms to clean, rewritten URLs without JavaScript: a PHP and mod_rewrite tutorial A simple way to use clean rewritten URLs directly from posted forms without JavaScript
• Carbon Neutral Christmas Lights Environmentally friendly Christmas lights that are fun and interactive

261 artworks to explore »

• Felicity with short hair A black and white charcoal drawing on russet coloured paper
• Skating dog A quick doodle on a wet beer coaster
• QNFX DJ Colour vector logo
• Dot - the male ladybug Photoshop coloured cartoon illustration
• The backyard chair Watercolour painting
• Girl with folded legs looking up Graphite pencil female figure drawing
• Tree growing out of rocks Charcoal drawing with white highlights
• Angry man Graphite pencil drawing coloured with Photoshop
• Felicity Circle Graphite pencil drawing
• Graeme Frontbum for president Photoshop artwork
• Three men in red pencil Coloured pencil drawing
• Girl reclining with head on hand Charcoal drawing
• 3 men from my sketchbook Graphite pencil drawing
• Sketch of two girls Graphite pencil drawing
• 2 Girls leaning on stool Graphite pencil nude drawings
• 3 Girls from my sketchbook Graphite pencil drawings
• 2 Girls from my sketchbook Graphite pencil figure drawings
• Girl touching toes HB graphite pencil life drawing
• Man with white beard Graphite pencil portrait
• Arm and hand study Anatomical drawing of the arm and side of a female body