Inspiration from Packaging
I often browse a handful of CSS galleries for continuous inspiration but it’s good to draw inspiration from a host of other sources, one of those being packaging. Creative packaging…
5 Must Read Career Blogs for Web Designers
Guest post written by Mary Ward Keeping an eye out for your career’s future is important for everyone. However, for web designers, looking forward may be even more important than…
Do you support IE6?
Us designers love a good rant about IE6. And why not? Everything looks perfect in Firefox, Safari, even IE7 and 8. Then you open up IE6 and everything is a…
Web Design Trends: Green & Renewable Websites
These days the words renewable, fresh, organic, green etc. are used quite a bit and more and more brands and businesses are jumping on the ‘green’ band wagon (which is…
Popular Design Blogs Share Their Stats
A few weeks ago I posted a blog post analysing my stats. It got a pretty good response as we don’t often see a lot of websites’ stats these days.…
Summary of Refresh Belfast with Front
Last week I went to Refresh Belfast and listened to the guys from Front, one of Ireland’s leading web development teams, talk about user experience and visual design among other…
A Brief Look At My Website Stats
Remember those days when people used to put website hit counters on their site (actually I still see this every so often)? These days we are more secretive about our…
Web Design Trends: Illustrated Characters
Illustrated characters are a very popular trend and as I stated in my guest post for Six Revisions: Five types of effective headers in web design, they add some character…
Barcamp Belfast: The 7 Deadly Sins of WordPress
I had the pleasure of attending and talking at Barcamp Belfast on Saturday (25th April) before dashing off and getting a plane to London for the marathon. I had a…
Guest Post: Five Types of Effective Headers in Web Design
Check out my latest guest blog post over at Six Revisions: Five Types of Effective Headers in Web Design. The post looks at 5 different styles of headers, showcasing 5…