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A New Look for LifeCycle

I’m pleased to reveal the results of my latest project, one that has been in the works since January.
I’m involved with the LifeCycle Organisation, a Malta-based charity that raises money for kidney treatments and research by organising extreme international cycling challenges. You may remember I built a new website for them in the spring [...]

Why I don’t release WordPress themes

As a web developer who is gradually focussing more and more on WordPress as my preferred technology platform, I release plugins from time to time, if I believe they might be suitable for general use. I’ve only released two so far, but I am sure there will be more in the near future.
In fact, [...]

CSS Double Body Background Image

So you’re designing a website, and you’ve reached a point where you need two background images behind the whole page, both repeating in at least one direction, but not all your pages will be full screen height.
Let’s say that the “farthest” background is an abstract tiled pattern of some kind, and the “nearest” background [...]

New Client Design – Kumpanija Teatru Rjal

Another site designed by ZigPress has now been launched. Kumpanija Teatru Rjal is an established Maltese theatre company, responsible for Malta’s annual Christmas pantomime as well as many other productions.
ZigPress was contracted by Timbaw (a Maltese IT solutions co-operative) to create a design for the site comprising standards-compliant code and images, which was then [...]

WordPress Themes – Third Party or Custom?

If you’re at all familiar with the WordPress content management / blogging system, you’ll be aware that WordPress sites are built around the WordPress application core (this provides the functionality) and a theme (this provides the design and, to some extent, the site structure), with plugins filling the gaps between what the core and theme [...]