Art and Design by Matthew James Taylor

Animated Photoshop selection on a web page!

Highlight areas of your website with animated select boxes just like you can do in PhotoShop

How to keep footers at the bottom of the page

A simple method using valid CSS to keep your footer at the bottom of the screen on pages with little content.

Perfect multi-column CSS layouts. iPhone compatible.

The best website layouts. No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. No Images. No JavaScript. Cross-browser and iPhone compatible.

The art of sharpening pencils

See all the popular styles and methods of sharpening pencils and learn a few tricks too.

Online Boggle dice shaker

A simple Boggle dice shaker built with JavaScript

The Floating Boxes CSS Layout

An alternative website design to the standard 'fixed width' or 'liquid layout' designs

How I drew my Bjork 'Alarm Call' picture

This is a simple step-by-step tutorial describing some of the tricks I use in CorelDraw and Photoshop and also when scanning artwork.

Web templates, responsive web design, layout examples, usability and navigation

See the CSS techniques and tactics I use when building websites

Learn my tricks to get web pages ranking higher in Google

See my crazy prototypes, experimental ideas and website inventions

Painting experiments

A collection of watercolour, gouache, and acrylic works

Realistic portrait drawing tips

Portraits from my life drawing classes plus a few drawings of friends

Grapheme-colour synesthesia: How I associate colours to letters

For as long as I can remember I have associated particular colours to each letter of the alphabet. I thought I was crazy; that was until I discovered I was not alone with these experiences...

Ogga and the beachball

A 21 comic strip series where Ogga gets stuck inside a beachball

Ogga and the vacuum cleaner

A 5 comic strip mini-series where Ogga gets stuck inside a vacuum cleaner