New features added to site – Iphone compatible, Brightkite plugin, new weekly logo

July 20th, 2008

I have had a busy couple of days getting some new bits ready for this site and learning a lot in the process. The main bulk of work has gone into getting the site Iphone compatible, choosing to keep this to just the blog at the moment I will open up the other areas once I can get the loading times down concerning the images. I have added a bunch of resources at the bottom of this post that I used. read more »

As you may have noticed…

July 9th, 2008

I have uploaded a new logo to the site, this is in no way the final polished article, far from it in fact. read more »

Chronicle a Graffiti Canvas Start to finish part deux

June 11th, 2008

Well after being completely caught up with work commitments and other freelance work I was not able to get my head into this to finish but finally managed to free up some spare time over the past few days, so instead of adding it to my other post I thought it would be better to create a new post to chronicle the final steps to creation... read more »

Andy Clarke CSS Workshop –
Progressive Enhancement

May 14th, 2008

We have just hit lunchtime in this and I am really enjoying it. Andy Clarke is a great presenter/host and knows his stuff so its always a great learning workshop. read more »

Chronicle a graffiti canvas from start to finish

May 8th, 2008

So a friend has asked me to create a graffiti canvas for his house, and my thinking was I would chronicle my process from start to finish so you could see it all. I am still undecided whether it will be a scan into illustrator and traced then finished in photoshop or sprayed straight on, maybe I'll do both, we shall see! read more »

Banksy Cansfestival

May 6th, 2008

I headed down to this yesterday with my girlfriend, we had planned to do a joint stencil but I pulled out due to nerves, I am not great doing my art in front of people! (and very glad I did to now). Expecting the worst que'ing wise as my housemate had been down the night before and there were 2 hour que's to get in, luckily when we arrived it was only about an hour. read more »

Semantically built lists, who needs divs????

April 29th, 2008

I thought I would go over the design for this page and how the Step-by-step guide to writing a review was built. read more »

CSS Frameworks/Reset

April 28th, 2008

I find this quite an interesting subject at the moment, there seems to be two contrasting views to what works well and it was brought up again at the Future of Web Design in both the conference talk by Jon Hicks and mentioned briefly by Jina Bolton and Andy Clarke in Jina's workshop on CSS.  I am someone that comes from the school of liking to reset all my styles. read more »

Why Accessibility? Because It’s Our Job!

January 10th, 2008

I had an interesting moment at christmas. We have been working like crazy on our new web project (touchlocal.com) to get it live, as part of this I had been covering some basics of accessibility but it had not really been an area we had touched on properly because of the time restraints. So in a moment of madness (or greatness I guess) I fired up my Nan's old school PC with an even older version if IE6 and all the accessibility settings pretty high as they could go so she could view it. I held my breath, worried... To ...read more »

Web standards shake up / browser wars..

January 9th, 2008

There seems to be some real shake ups happening in the web standards word, check some of these links, they provide really interesting reading! Read more here And here