Hello, my name is Dave and I am a full time Web Designer based around the Surrey and Hampshire area in the UK

Although most of my commercial experience is in Web Design, I am also a qualified Graphic Designer and have produced Print work for various companies. I am fascinated by Photography and enjoy that as a hobby, although it sometimes comes in very handy for work too.

You can also find me at...

I'm on Linked In
Find me on Facebook
Hear from me on Twitter
I'm on MySpace too...
Blog

Styling forms using lists

by Dave Reeder 23. January 2010 19:40
Styling forms can be a little tricky trying to align labels and input boxes and getting it looking professional, but by using lists we can layout our forms in an easy, semantically correct way. The key to doing this, is to use our <li> </li> tags as if they are a "block" which... [More]

Tags: , , , , , ,

Building a contact form in ASP.NET with C#

by Dave Reeder 17. January 2010 00:02
As a busy Designer, I tend to leave forms and server side code to Developers, but even small sites normally require a contact us form. In the old days, one would put a mailto: link to your email address. However, this will normally lead to spam bots getting hold of the email and spamming it like... [More]

Tags: , , , , , , ,

BitDefender Total Security 2010

by Dave Reeder 12. January 2010 02:18
I just wanted to make a quick post about Bitdefender Total Security 2010 now that I have been using it for a couple of weeks. I am happy to say it seems to be working very well on Windows XP and has cleared up a couple of suspicious files already! The Bitdefender suite also comes with some nice "tun... [More]

Tags: , , ,

FTP Clients and Security Issues!

by Dave Reeder 29. October 2009 21:12
I recently had a Trojan on my PC which caused me a lot of problems! As well as having to spend hours purging my PC of all processes in the memory, registry entries and .exe files, I discovered another nasty feature of this virus. It seems it had got into my ftp client (fileZilla) and read all t... [More]

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

jQuery.addClass - Add a CSS class dynamically

by Dave Reeder 24. September 2009 21:28
The .addClass method will add a CSS class to the selected element on a page. For example, imagine we have a navigaton bar which contains our page links and the homepage link has an ID of "navHome". We can use jQuery to select the link in our nav and add the class very easily: <script type=... [More]

Tags: , ,