I was talking to Kyle Boyd recently and we were discussing a website that he was due to revamp. He asked me the question “Guess what they’re using?” and I then rhymed off 10 things that, as web designers, we should try and stay away from. So I thought I’d share the list with [...]
FOWD is going to London next week (17th & 18th April) and am happy to say I’ll be attending. This will be my first big web event and am exited to hear the speakers and meet with different web designers out there.
If you follow my site you’ll know that I’ve recently been learning Ruby on Rails for developing websites/applications, The Big Word Project being my first deployed application using it. I thought I’d share some of the most useful resources that I found extremely helpful.
I never used to be one for books, but that was until my last year as an under-grad when I realised how influential and useful design related books could be to my work. A year and a bit on now, I’ve read loads of books and continue to do so, taking something new from each.
Below [...]
Adii from www.adii.co.za recently put together a list of some of the best blog designs about. If you’re a web designer this is a great source of inspiration and useful articles.
Thanks to Adii for featuring my site at #32 – it’s an honor being featured amongst the best of the best
This is a great article by Jina Bolton on writing well structured CSS stylesheets, making them more efficient and reusable for future projects. If you’re one for messy CSS and you need to clean up your act, check out Creating Sexy Stylesheets.
If you’re a web designer you know how hard it is to get your design to look perfect across all the different browsers available; Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera etc. When it comes to designing for html email, it can be even more nightmarish.
Introducing the Email Standards Project. A project setup to encourage best practice standards [...]
Recently a client asked me if it was possible to have a pdf on their website open up at 100% automatically. I said I didn’t think it was possible but I’d have a look and see what I could find. Turns out it is possible and there’s a bunch of other commands that you can [...]
Thought I’d give a quick update as I haven’t said anything in a while.
Very busy these days with Masters course and finishing up a couple of big projects that I started over the summer. Made a few changes to the site to make it a bit more user friendly. I’ve been reading a couple of [...]
You may or may not have noticed that my site has a timed style sheet. Visit the site during the day and it has a day theme, early evening a sunset theme and during the night a night theme (you can also click the icons at the bottom left of the site to view each [...]