Martin Lucas Hello there!

My name's Martin Lucas and I'm a website designer, casual photographer, part-time DJ, sporadic blogger, Apple fan boy and social media obsessive. This is my portfolio slash blog. Beyond these pixels you can find me on Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, LastFM, LinkedIn and Vimeo.

Clean CSS

May 6th, 2009 in Design

Clean CSSI recently purchased a Wordpress Theme that had a CSS style sheet that wasn’t arranged in a format that I’m used to – which made it a bit trickier to work with.

So I used Clean CSS which tidied up the CSS and rearranged it into a format that I’m used to, making it a lot easier to work with and edit. It only takes a couple of minutes to work through the code, you can either paste in your code or point the site to a file.

Have a go and find out more here; www.cleancss.com

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website grader

December 12th, 2008 in Design

Website Grader - SEO Tool
there are plenty of seo (search engine optimisation) tools on the web, as well as tutorials and guides on what improvements you can make to your website to help push it up the search engine results pages for your chosen keywords.

for the last few years i have been using an incredibly helpful pdf guide that i downloaded, alongside various learnt lessons from the past 8 years of releasing websites into the world wild web.

a couple of weeks ago i was recommended this website; http://website.grader.com as a good tool for optimising a website either during or after it’s launch.

once you’ve inserted the url of the website you are going to test, website.grader takes about a minute to gather the report and the result is very comprehensive, easy to read and has easy to follow explanations of each part of the report which also contain helpful suggestions on what you should change on your site to further help it’s journey up the search engine results pages.

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