Monday, February 15th, 2010
As a designer I often have to explain the concept of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation to clients to try and explain why their site doesn’t look the same in every browser. Selling concepts I endured a misspent youth in retail sales and one of the things I’m good at is finding the best way [...]
read moreMonday, January 18th, 2010
Regular readers may have noticed that things look a little different around here! I achieved one of my pet project goals for 2010 by redesigning coffeepowered from the ground up. I thought I’d write a little about the design process I went through and how the design evolved from the wildly different vision I had [...]
read moreThursday, August 13th, 2009
As you can see, I’ve been tinkering with a new theme for the blog! Please feel free to let me know what you think! I’ll be using the same leathery style on the Coffeepowered frontpage also, once the blog is done Disclaimer! This theme isn’t finished, isn’t cross-browser tested and probably doesn’t validate. It’s to [...]
read moreFriday, August 7th, 2009
This is one of those tips where I think “surely everyone knows this already?” but it’s a solution to a problem that I found which was quite neat and I’ll use all the time from now on. When it comes to embedding a company logo into a page, quite often the logo won’t be suitable [...]
read moreThursday, August 6th, 2009
I’ve only just spotted this, but some of my moleskine scribbles were featured in Niki Brown’s Design O’Blog a while ago. I love my moleskine, although I need to get into the habit of scribbling more! http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2008/12/01/designers-scribbles/
read moreTuesday, November 18th, 2008
One of the major benefits of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control site-wide layout is that simply by changing the CSS file, you can change the look and feel of the entire site. You only need to look at the CSS Zen Garden to understand the power this grants us as designers and developers. [...]
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