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
CSS: margin top vs bottom ALWAYS use top margin when spacing block-level elements in CSS layouts. Why? I will show you the pros and cons of both methods then reveal a deeper CSS principle that shows why top is always the best solution.
Kidsit babysitting website launch Kidsit is a babysitting tips website for parents and carers. I created it to share what I've learned from caring for my three kids, I hope you like it.
Responsive House Design A house plan that responds to the width of your browser window
Four-leaf Clovers and Synesthesia How synesthesia helps me find four and five leaf clovers
Create Fractals with Recursive Drawing Introducing an awesome fractal drawing tool by Toby Schachman: recursivedrawing.com
Responsive Banner Ads with HTML5 and CSS3 Introducing flexible HTML5 banner ads for your responsive layouts
Kevin Taylor Art: Website Launch My dad tutors art classes in the Gold Coast, Australia. This is a website all about his classes and the work they create
Fractal Gravity Could the universe be one giant fractal?
Pixel tree fractal My first Threadless tee-shirt design
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
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
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
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
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