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Technology – the power and the promise

Robin Christopherson @AbilityNet – UK accessibility charity. Computers can cater for everyones needs. You don’t need to use the keyboard, the monitor, the tower could be in your room/in the screen/ or on the other side of the world. Accessibility is often approached as a bolt on, something that costs more and you have to […]

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Chris Coyier — SVG is for everybody

Chinese Year of the Horse. Horse.svg – looks beautiful everyone. it’s 13.7 k EVERYWHERE. Phone, tablet, desktop…. everywhere!!!! SVG is Flexible, sharp, small and accessible. SVG is responsive and responsible. SVG is as easy as including it in the tag. Supported in all current browsers and two versions back. SVG could be learned, but you […]

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The Ultimate Mobile App

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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]