5 Quick and Easy Ways to Optimise Your Website
Performance is something you don’t often think about. You assume that if it loads quickly enough for you then everyone’s happy. Someone commented a while back saying that it takes quite long for my pages to load so I optimised it a tad and thought I’d share a few quick tips with you.
Guest Post: 8 Tips To Design a Charity Website
Check out my latest guest blog post over at Webdesigner Depot; 8 tips to design a charity website.
The post takes a look at what makes up a good charity website (who usually don’t have a large website budget) and showcases 20 good examples.
The Power and Kindness of Twitter
There’s no doubting the power of Twitter and the ability to share information virally. Just look at the Hudson plane crash as an example. But what’s amazing is the kindness that comes with the Twitter community.
How you can help transform the lives of disabled kids
Action for Kids is a charity dedicated towards helping disabled children and their families. They help transform young lives by supplying kids with wheelchairs, mobility equipment and work opportunities.
Left to right: Daniel, Maleah & William
Guest Post: 10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Site
Check out my latest guest blog post over at Smashing Magazine; 10 steps to the perfect portfolio site.
The post takes a look at 10 things that make up a good personal portfolio site and showcases 40+ excellent and top class portfolios.
Book Review: Tick My Boxes
I can’t remember where exactly, but I came across this while browsing the web one day and it caught my attention as I’d been thinking for some time now about having a checklist for projects. And here it is. Tick My Boxes, The Web Developers’ Checklist.
7 Things Web Designers Can Learn From Gordon Ramsay
I was watching Ramsay’s Kichen Knightmares USA on Friday night and it got me thinking that as web designers we can learn so much from the kitchen maestro extraordinaire.
Photo: Channel 4
Irish Blog Awards Winners 2009
I was short listed for the best newcomer award but Trust Tommy ran away with it. Congrats Tommy and well done to all the other winners.
I didn’t attend the event myself but it looked like a good night.
Irish Blog Awards
My blog has been shortlisted for an Irish Blog Award; Best Newcomer – Sponsored by Teamworkpm.net.
Happy days! Thanks Damien and all the judges involved.
The Irish Blog Awards are Saturday 21st February 2009 at the Cork International Airport Hotel (sold out).
Web Design Trends: Stars and Aurora Effect
Arguably this trend was made popular after the release of Apple Leopard OSX and it’s groovy auroral/starry branding. Adding this simple effect to your background or header can make a very plain dark web design come to life.
Check out this list of 20 websites using these effects plus a few helpful tutorials.