Richard Shepherd

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 [...]

jQuery is so blooming useful! There’s an effect you’re seeing all over the web now, where links nudge over to the right when you mouse over them. So, here’s a simply tutorial to get jQuery link nudges onto your pages in just 5 minutes! First we need need to include the jQuery library in the [...]

I think we can all agree that Miley Cyrus is one of the most influential recording artists of our time. Probably. So, in an homage to her and Ken Jones – and all those Top 10 (7?) lists out there on Twitter – here is my own list. Yes Twitter, these are the seven things [...]

So I had quite a specific problem. For some reason, http://growlingranger.com was redirecting to http://www.growlingranger.com with a 302 redirect. And, as SEO guru (and friend) Ken Jones from the SEOpsCentre put it, that’s bad SEO juju. 302 means that the address has moved temporarily, and will be back soon. Which in turn meant that my [...]

So a little smiley face appears at the bottom of your blog, and it looks like this: Well ain’t that the cutest thing! But what is it? It’s the little .gif file that the WordPress Stats plug-in uses to monitor your page. It does so with some code like this… 1<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif?host=www.yoursite.com&rand=###############&blog=#######&v=###&post=#&ref=#" alt="" />; …where [...]

So today I needed to display photos from our Flickr Group without using php or asp.net. I have a WordPress widget that does this job nicely, but no PHP was allowed. Thank goodness for jQuery! jQuery has a handy little function which allows us to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request, and then [...]

Welcome to the final part of our tutorial on how to write your own WordPress Twitter Widget.

Welcome to the first part of ‘Rumbled’, the weekly round-up of useful (and not so useful) sites I’ve stumbled upon this week. And yes, when I stumble upon a good site I StumbleUpon it too. So here we go, in no particular order… T-Mobile Advert on YouTube – For those of you who haven’t seen [...]

Welcome back! So you should have read through part one of the tutorial, where we left things off with the following line of code: $result = $t -> userTimeline($id=false, $count = ($options[’tweets’] * 4), $since = false); (If that looks strange, make sure you check out part 1 of this tutorial!) We now have our [...]

So in my day job I work at a travel company, on their many websites and other general online marketing stuff. I’ve spent the last few weeks designing a totally new site, which is then being coded up by our experts here in the UK and India. For the techy ones amongst you, it’s all [...]