Preventing Analytics referral spam and fake visits
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With over 10 years industry experience, I have a range of front and back end development skills including:
A strong generalist developer with both front end and server side skills. I'm constantly evolving my abilities, tools and refining workflow.
I like to take a clean and user centric approach to website design. I consider usability and cross device responsive layouts key.
My CMS platform of choice for bespoke web development. I get into the nuts and bolts of WordPress to leverage powerful and flexible content management features.
From subtle animations to virtual environments, interactive infographics and games; I have used JavaScript & jQuery framework to bring websites to life.
I've delivered bespoke e-commerce websites and themes, integrated with user-friendly product management features and various payment gateways.
My strong background in PHP/MySQL and server-side programming allows for a variety of bespoke projects including custom built portals and intranet systems.
From product and display visualation to character animation and virtual scenes, I have created 3D objects and animations used in a wide variety of web and digital projects.
Strong SEO is integral to numerous aspects of web development. I have delivered many SEO, PPC and HTML Email campaigns with measurable ROI.
Just some of the recent projects I've developed alongside talented designers & developers whilst working as a freelancer & in-house.
Commercial Estate Agents
Custom theme, advanced property & map search
Modern & Contemporary Funiture
Bespoke e-commerce & product builder
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Quickly remove the emoji code WordPress 4.2+ adds to the head element with a few lines of code in the functions.php file
A run though of how to add the featured thumbnail image column to pages, posts and custom post types in WordPress admin view. Code and examples given.
How to remove different columns in WordPress page, post and custom post type views. Examples include removing 'Type', 'Comments' and 'Author' columns
A brief overview into some of the technical aspects in creating a more complex Twitter tool and some of the decisions I faced when creating socialbearing.com
Looking at how we can prevent widows (or orphans) for regular flowing text on a website. Solution uses jQuery.
A jQuery function that will check all checkboxes in a specific form on form submit and give an alert if no checkboxes are selected.
Short tutorial with source code showing how the standard 'cart' text can be changed sitewide in WooCommerce. This includes 'add to cart', 'view cart', 'update cart' and other language translations.
A tutorial with code explanations showing how an XML file can be parsed with jQuery and AJAX to generate a select list.
Various tips and tricks to help increase your WordPress speed scores to over 95% as measured by Google PageSpeed Insights
I am not currently freelancing or taking on any contract work but feel free to get in touch.
You can also find me on Twitter @tomwebdev.