Book Review: The Smashing Book
Starting off with my first book review of the year.
I was very excited to hear about a Smashing Magazine (SM) book, entitled ‘The Smashing Book’. SM is undoubtedly the number one web designer’s resource on the web. Whenever I need to find something, it’s the first place I go to look. It covers all aspects of web design and has some great authors who put a lot of effort into their writing.
New Years Resolutions For 2010
Every year I take a look back at the past 12 months and set some goals for the year ahead. It’s good to get it down on paper (or screen) and by making it public there’s more chance of actually following through.
Perfecting User Experience Design with A/B Testing
As a web designer it’s hard to get the user experience design right first time, you never know how users are going to use the site or how big a difference small iterations will make, so it’s important to test the user experience and try out different solutions. That’s where A/B testing comes in.
5 Essential Document Templates for Freelance Designers
As a freelance web designer it makes sense to have a number of documents prepared as you tend to use the same ones over and over again. I thought I would share with you the 5 documents that I have prepared and ready to use, along with some excellent examples from other designers and studios.
#buildconf: The Greatest Web Design Conference The World Has Ever Seen
Guest Post: Showcase of Web Design in Ireland
Smashing Magazine recently asked me to put together an article on the Irish web design industry, and I obliged.
The article contains some great interviews with some of Ireland’s top designers, some info about what’s happening across the island and a showcase of some top notch websites.
Internet Explorer Users Don’t Care About Rounded Corners
Internet Explorer users don’t care about rounded corners. Bold statement? Perhaps. But recently I’ve taken this approach to a few designs as I’m tired of having to use some sort of rounded corner hack to support IE. It’s a lot easier to just use the CSS 3 declaration.
Notes From FOWA London 2009
Had a great time at FOWA London last week. Thanks to Ryan, Jo and the Carsonified team for hosting another superb event.
Rather than listing everything that was talked about over the 2 day event I’ve put together some notes on things that stood out.
Book Review: HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas’ Approach
Every so often I will receive an email that asks the following:
How can I learn how to build websites?
There are two approaches you can take to learning how to build websites.
- Learn how to build websites
- Learn how to build websites the right way, aka the Web Standardistas’ way
Web Design Trends: iPhones
Arguably the coolest gadget at the minute (and for the last couple of years) is the iPhone. Not only do they look good in your hand, they look good on websites too. It also gets the immediate attention of any iPhone owners out there as they’ll want to know more about what your site does for the iPhone.