elliott richmond

Design

  • A conceptual split-screen image showing contrast between complexity and simplicity. On the left: a chaotic, cluttered maze of arrows, signs, or tangled paths in dark tones symbolising confusion. On the right: a clean, minimal interface or smooth pathway in light tones symbolising clarity and ease.

    Website Menu Navigation vs Mega Menu Navigation: Why Simplicity Still Wins in 2025

    Menus have always had one job… to help people find their way around a website. Like a door handle or a table of contents, they’re functional by design… simple, expected, and effective. But over the years, we’ve gradually distorted their purpose. In the ongoing debate of website menu navigation vs mega menu navigation, too many…

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  • Extending WordPress Core Blocks

    I’ve noticed a growing discussion about extending WordPress core blocks and whether it’s necessary to create a custom block when you can often extend existing core blocks. Generally, it’s better to extend them rather than reinvent the wheel IMO. In February 2024, I faced a situation where I needed to convert an old site into…

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  • The HTML markup & CSS behind the logo…

    Following on from my previous post about the thinking behind the logo, I now want to explain how I translated this for use on the web, if it’s useful to anyone then my work is done 🙂 If you think it can be done better then feel free to leave a comment, it’s always interesting…

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  • The thinking behind the logo

    Creating a new blog means creating a new brand but I’m not thinking about creating something emotive here, it’s just me so I wanted to design something stylish and geometric around my name “Elliott Richmond”. Having a background in design and now in recent years a big focus on WordPress development, particularly building bespoke plugins,…

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