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 =)
Latest articles
iPad CSS Layout with landscape / portrait orientation modes A free iPad optimised website layout that changes design when the device is rotated
CSS3 Starbursts How to make starbursts without images: a CSS3 tutorial
Experimenting with visited links A list of neat CSS tricks that make use of visited link styles
Design 11: Inspiration behind the new look A summary of the new design and features of my redesigned website
Horizontally Centered Drop-Down Menus A detailed article explaining how to add drop-down submenus to my centered menus
Apple iSlate tablet computer predictions My feature predictions for the impending Apple iSlate computer
CeBIT Australia new website launch The CeBIT Australia website built with the Siteflex CMS
100 Tweets: A video showing 100 Twitter logos A short video featuring 100 Twitter logos to the sound of a bird tweeting in our backyard.
Apple iPhone 3G S (S stands for smashed) The unfortunate tale of one iPhone 3G S, and one tiled floor
Website images video effect with CSS A neat CSS trick that turns ordinary images into a fuzzy, pixelated CRT screen
Exploring web typography: An experimental CSS hover layout An experimental website layout using the CSS hover pseudo-class and plain XHTML
CSS Reddit Alien An animated Reddit alien logo I created from pure CSS and text
Ultimate Liquid Layout Drupal Themes 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
Synesthesia 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 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 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
Four methods of adding CSS to HTML 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 A step by step tutorial explaining how to create multicolumn layouts with divs and CSS where every column is the same height