Richard Shepherd

The Pandas are getting ready, slowing positioning themselves for launch. Never before have so many Pandas worked so hard on a web app, crafting every inch with the finest bamboo their chubby little paws can carry.
Here’s a sneak peak :)

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Ben who said
“I would love to know how you do those header custom fonts …!!”
Well, without wanting to turn this blog into an episode of Why Don’t You I thought I should really answer this question on the blog so that others could have a [...]

This is a tutorial for beginners, and we were all beginners once.
To a beginner I remember custom fields looking quite pointless. I couldn’t quite grasp what they were for.
Then, after building a few WordPress sites, I watched an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks and it really opened my eyes. There’s a [...]

Sometimes you need to make bold decisions and really shake up conventions to get results. It can be scary, other people might point at you and laugh, but what’s the point if you’re not going to try something new?!
Here’s a case in point. This is how the old search forms from one of the sites [...]

First off, I can’t take any credit for this.
All the credit goes to Paul Denya for the answer, and Elliot Jay Stocks for the question.
EJS asked:
Does anyone know of a way (with PHP) to add an ‘alt’ class to every other <li> in a list? Like how WP does with comments.
(He did this over at [...]

Here’s the problem:
You need to install WordPress on a Windows machine running IIS. I’d never normally do this, but sometimes you just don’t have a choice.
There are plenty of links out there about how to do this, and the one I referred to most was How To Install WordPress on IIS 6.0. It is, more [...]

I was at a concert last weekend at Wembley Stadium which is, if you haven’t been, H U G E. It was filled to the brim with 80,000 people who had paid good money to see a nameless boyband. I was one of them. :)
Not long after the first support act had finished, the murmurs [...]

I think a lot of people are still trying to work out how to use Twitter for business.
We can all let our followers know what we’re up to, and even forward on useful links to other sites to each other. Some business have been successfully experimenting. Dell, for example, have made over $2m tweeting special [...]

A quick thought:
Search Engine Optimisation, in the wrong hands, can turn into fishing.
I had a conversation recently about generating a keyword rich page in a highly competitive space. Even if we didn’t get page one, or two, or three of Google, some people might find the site and then, perhaps, might decide to buy some [...]

Hello there.
So my first question is, how on earth did you find this page? RichardShepherd.com should be hidden from those nasty search engines at the moment, so if you’ve found me then please – go away!
Actually, stick around and forgive the ‘work-in-progress’ feel to the site. It’s still being optimised and customised so who knows [...]