Giant Peach Blog

While clearing out their attic, my mum and dad asked me to come over and grab any bits I wanted to keep. What a trip down memory lane! read more…

Building a website is more than just getting a few pictures to show up and making sure your links work. The underlying framework that gives your visitors a consistent and fulfilling experience is more important now than ever. Today, visitors to your site are coming to it using many different browsers and hardware devices. To capture their interest – and earn their business – you have to be prepared.

At Giant Peach we only build sites using web standards compliant code (this means XHTML and style sheets CSS). There are several reasons for this, including: readability, accessibility, and speed. But why should you care if your website is built to web standards? read more…

A really useful but little-know feature of CSS 2.1 is the [href] selector. It provides a very simple way of styling links. This can be very useful if you have a large list of files, for example in an Admin/Control panel. Find out how you can make these look good and more user-friendly. read more…

The Worlds best salesman (as verified by the Guinness book of records) Joe Girard was a master of keeping in touch with his customers. He was a car salesman and every month he sent out a card to each of his customers. Joe Girard knew the value of keeping himself at the front of his customers minds, so when it came to buying their next car, they thought of him. read more…

You can tell quite a bit about a person by what web browser they use. Internet Explorer users are less likely to know that there are other options, Firefox users tend to know a little more about the internet (and look down on IE users), and Safari fans tend to think anything Apple is superior no matter what it is! read more…