Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
So at the start of the year I pledged my allegiance to the #p52 movement and aimed to write 1 new blog post per week for a year.
I failed.
So this is where I recant multiple excuses to explain my failure. While I got off to a good start with some posts that generated a fair [...]
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 to sell [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2010
If you’ve ever worked with PHP you’ll be more than familiar with the use of if/elseif/else conditional statements, these statements often become large and unweildy, especially when HTML is mixed in with PHP, causing a problems with code readability. There are a couple of alternate ways to write these statements which can improve your code.
if..endif [...]
Monday, 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 moreTuesday, January 12th, 2010
I’ve been dabbling in web design and development for 10 years now, and for as long as I can remember I’ve had one or more pet projects on the go. At the start of the year I decided that I’d like to devote some more of my personal time to these pet projects, whether that [...]
read moreMonday, January 4th, 2010
Well, it’s now 2010 and as usual, January brings with it many self-made promises and resolutions, one of mine is to write more, even if it’s just quick tips & tricks rather than lengthy diatribes which I always want to write, but never seem to find the time.
During the back end of last year I [...]