I hereby swear to do my best to fill these pages with things that others may find interesting. I will discuss topics, share links, vent personal grievances and may even write a tutorial or two.
I am about to start on the design for a site that I want to have a sort of underwater-y (yeah it’s a word… what of it!) look. Did a bit of research into other sites doing similar things and thought I would share a few with you.
I came across this interesting post the other day and it made me think about some usability issues which had seemed like common sense but that I had never really thought of.
I was passed a site design the other day to chop into XHTML/CSS and I knew right away I was going to have to deal with IE6 and transparent PNGs. There are many of these out there but there are a few that have, for me, stood out so I thought I would try and list a few of my favourites and layout some of their pros and cons.
My girlfriend asked me earlier about learning web design, she wants to learn something new and possibly something that could grow into a way of earning some extra money. As I am on hand to help with web design, this seemed like the obvious choice.
Having been to uni I am well aware of the trouble with learning web design in an academic environment. Tutors are often along way behind the industry, courses are encouraged to teach software rather than the technologies behind them due to sponsorship by the companies that make them, and on top of that web design is such a broad subject encompassing so many areas it would be hard to teach even a little bit of them all. Knowing this I thought the best route would be to find a decent intro to web design course to get started then I could help her with good sites to read and what to learn through tutorials.
I decided that I don’t post enough about design and inspiration. I visit a lot of blogs and one of the main reasons is to get inspiration in one form or another. In light of this I thought I would share this video on youtube.
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I have been a bit busy with work recently so I have not posted much recently. In the process of doing lots of work I have run into lots of problems. Today I finished up on a page on the site I am working on and tested in all the usual browsers, and lo and behold Internet Explorer 6 made it look wierd.
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I don’t often have need to use online translation services as the need rarely arises and when I have used them in the past they have been pretty unreliable. This morning I found myself needing to use one as my site was featured on an Italian web site about javascript.
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Recently I have had lots of compliments and questions about the navigation used on this site so I thought I would write a bit of a tutorial about how it was done and also show some further examples of what is possible using similar techniques.
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