Back in May, fresh from the Future of Web Design conference I tweeted: The new Boston Globe website (live soon) designed by @beep is going to be *the* benchmark for all modern websites I’d just seen Ethan Marcotte give a talk on Responsive Web Design and I was inspired. Like many others I’d read Ethan’s article almost a [...]
I’ve been quiet lately (big updates on the horizon) so a quick one for this evening: My pre-launch checklist for website builds has always include “create print.css”. Most of the time I forget (or ignore it). It seems like the default thing to do though. Until you think about it. Who prints web pages? I do [...]
I’ve been the Senior Web Designer (and front-end dev) at Base Creative, London for the last three years. I’ve worked on great projects with amazing clients, making the Web that little bit better. But sadly nothing can stay the same forever, and despite fond memories, I’ve decided to move on. Next Monday I’ll be joining Browser Creative, [...]
My first foray into programming was Flash ActionScript and thus I’ve always had a place in my heart for the damned software. (With the release of ActionScript 3 I even learnt a bit about real programming.) Even now — despite my flag waving for web standards — I do still secretly love Flash, regardless of how deprecated it may [...]
Earlier this month I wrote an article about self promotion online as a designer (read Speak to Me over at xheight). I summed it up to this sentiment: Self promotion is not about pushing an ego onto others, it’s simply about making yourself visible and accessible. One thing I realised quickly in my career is the [...]
A while back the Gawker network redesigned their line-up and the Internet revolted. It was bad, very very bad. The design, the usability, the technical implementation—it had people scratching their heads. Yesterday TechCrunch launched a redesign and, well, it’s not quite ‘a Gawker’. We used AOL Paint, which comes free on the AOL CD and has [...]
Have you seen Google+? Copyright © Google Aside from making the name of their “like button” (Google+1) suddenly make a lot more sense, Google+ seems to be a very intuitive mix between Twitter & Facebook. And I really like it (or +1 it, I guess). Please Circle Me on Google+ * For me Twitter is a broadcast [...]