XKCD hit the nail on the head today. I’ve had several conversations with clients over the past few years about wanting to create an app when a specific mobile site, or responsive site, would do the job just as well. Comic from XKCD on Installing Over the next few years I can see the gap… Continue reading The Ultimate Mobile App
Category: Writing
Multi Channel Authoring CMS Interface
Content some times starts as a small idea and grows. It might grow from a title of an idea into a snippet, and then again into an article or even further as a feature story. It is important to keep this as a single piece of content that maintains it’s structure from each stage. This… Continue reading Multi Channel Authoring CMS Interface
State of the Browser 2014
State of the Browser is a one day event that is put on by the London Web Standards team and it brings together evangelists and developers from browser vendors such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
The Futures so bright, you gotta wear SHADES
Typekit are a font service that allow you to use beautiful webfonts on your website without the additional costs or complexity of purchasing a font from a foundry and converting it to all of the web formats.
Get ‘Designing for the Web’ for free
In 2009 I wanted to improve my web design capabilities. I was recommended reading Mark Boulton’s book “Designing for the Web” and it was the best thing that could have happened.
A new blog
After many many months without being to update this site I was finally able to set aside enough time to finish off the migration, moving from Squiz Matrix CMS across to WordPress. This is the second move of this blog. It was originally migrated from Blogspot across to Matrix back in 2007 and it served… Continue reading A new blog
2013 dConstruct review
Today was killer. As I hit send on the weekly newsletter at 1:30am I was regretting the time I spent and amount of beer I consumed at the Moo Summer Party. Actually it wasn’t so much regretting as pondering if it was the wisest way to spend my Thursday evening. As my head hit the… Continue reading 2013 dConstruct review
migrating a wordpress site to a new domain
I previously pointed out the reasons behind needing and wanting to move content from one domain to another. Moving your wordpress website from one domain to another is a tricky process. Aside from the problems you will have to deal with specifically with your site (links), you don’t want to damage your page rank and… Continue reading migrating a wordpress site to a new domain
Finding inspiration for writing
Blogging is something that can be really hard. Sometimes the topics come thick and fast and we have too much to write about, but often we sit down in front of our site and stare at the last post from more than a month ago while we beat ourselves up about how we need to… Continue reading Finding inspiration for writing
Review of the Slide and Stage
Thank you. That’s how today ended, with a rousing applause of Aral Balkan’s day long speaking workshop he finished with a simple thank you. The conclusion tied the day nicely together though. Speaking isn’t rocket science, but it is a science. There are things that you can do to prepare and make the entire experience… Continue reading Review of the Slide and Stage