Demo Contribute on GitHub I recently did a presentation to the Darwin Web Standards Group on Responsive Design. I stole gleamed a lot of the ideas from John Allsops famous “Dao of Web Design”, Jeremy Keiths talk on Responsive Web Design as part of the ASYNCJS group in Brighton, work I did with Imogen Levy […]
Category: Writing
jQuery Table of Contents
This is a heading There are occasions when you want to be able to preview the headings that come further down the page, but you won’t want to have to maintain them every time the content might change. This is where this little snippet of jquery comes in handy. It takes all the H2 elements […]
Weekly Web Update #3
This week we take a look at Typography Tools, Rethinking the CSS Grid, is HTML5 Web Apps really the answer and making beautiful shapes with CSS3
Weekly Update #2
Welcome to all the new subscibers especially seeing as I had a bit of a mishap with the first mail out and my gmail integration.
The Shape of Design
XKCD The Core
This has been around for a little while, but I had to giggle about this when I saw it this morning. I have the same thoughts about the Earth’s Core ever since reading a book about it in 1996, although I remember also reading that the Earth’s Core was as hot as the Sun. Temperature […]
EPS Vector Soccer Football Pitch
Today I made some changes to the West Ham United Season Results Prediction to include a football pitch as a background image to the tabled data. I wanted to download a vector image to include rather than recreate one, but everywhere I looked I was presented with “please pay”. This is the internet though, and […]
IA Writer for Mac
I have just purchased IA Writer for Mac through the Mac Store. $21.99 for a writing program so it had better be worth the money! It was only released a few hours ago, and I was excited to see if the app that people went crazy over for the iPad was going to live up […]
OmniFocus for the iPad
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a new iPad! To get more use than just flicking through FlipBoard, trawling through Twitter or playing FIFA 2011, I’ve made the big step and forked over the money for OmniFocus. This has taken my OmniFocus purchases up to 3. OmniFocus for the Mac OmniFocus for […]
How to manage a team
A few days ago I received an email from an old work colleague. “This is a bit of a random, out-of-the-blue question, but I was wondering if there were any words of wisdom you had on being a team leader? Back in the UK, you always seemed to maintain control of your projects and keep […]