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 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 [...]
Monday, October 26th, 2009
So I was in the City this weekend with my fiancée Natalie and we popped into La Senza to pick up an early Christmas present for Nat’s sister. While we were at the checkout I noticed that the cashiers were using a very effective technique for encouraging impulse purchases.
La Senza offer a complimentary gift wrapping [...]
Friday, August 21st, 2009
I’m always up for a bit of ‘life hacking’, figuring out ways to get the most out of everday life and recently I’ve noticed I’ve been feeling extremely tired on a morning, almost fatigued and this feeling continues for most of the day.
I get a decent amount of sleep, usually going to bed before 11pm [...]
Friday, 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 for [...]