Quick client summary: Rob Blake Associates are experts in building scalable and highly-available web applications on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Previous successes A few years ago, I had the pleasure of working with two local entrepreneurs who were working on software that had the potential to significantly disrupt and change the sector it was being… Read more »
Quick client overview: Caring for Cats is an award-winning, independent cat rescue and rehoming charity based in Market Weighton, near Hull. A small charity in need of rescue Earlier this year, after reading about how I helped a similar charity overcome their problems, Caring for Cats contacted me to see if I could help them…. Read more »
Recently I worked with a great company called GroupBC who provides data driven BIM software for it’s corporate clients. Having worked with the Head of Marketing at GroupBC in the past, I was the go-to person to help them solve a few problems they were experiencing. What the company had was a great looking website… Read more »
Quick client overview: Fishpond.ie is Ireland’s definitive casting resource that connects budding and experienced actors with casting opportunities in TV, film and stage roles. Intro Recently, well towards the end of 2015, I was contacted by a client who was looking to relaunch their website and required an experienced UI/UX designer to work alongside their… Read more »
Whether you are an IT professional or a computer novice, choosing the right backup system to use at work or home is a difficult, and frankly uninspiring use of time, and one which almost always results in making undesirable compromises. There always seem to be far too many options and the good solutions come with… Read more »
Do you build websites? Do you offer your clients a content management system to provide them a method of updating their website? If so, what CMS do you use?
We all know IE6 is a bag ‘o’ shite poo right? Well unfortunately there are still loads of people who use it. This is not necessarily a problem in itself, after all as long and we do our CSS properly and understand the limitations of the browser, everything should be ok. One area that does… Read more »
What’s a CSS framework? A CSS framework can help you achieve rapid development of websites, web apps and mashups. It eliminates repetitive tasks while prototyping designs by using a pre structured CSS/XHTML grid-based framework. Main features of good CSS Framework is to: 1) Rapidly speed up our development time 2) Very small file size 3)… Read more »
Adobe revealed their new ‘traditionally themed’ Photoshop interface this week at their annual AdobeExpo. The drastic redesign has come after months of highly publicised campaigning by angry Anti-Adobe protesters who state that their current interface is “harming our planet”, and “is turning our young generation into mindless web2.0 obsessed vombies”. A spokesman from Adobe said… Read more »
Some CSS news from the web design industry. I have cherry-picked these articles and tools, aimed specifically at CSS and web design. Enjoy! My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names Many developers are puzzled when it comes to assigning class names to elements and often end up using wrong ones. Class names should not… Read more »
Rich typography on the web sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a mix of Javascript and Flash that enables a web designer to move away from the restrictions of on being able to use web-safe fonts and pick the one’s they really want to use. sIFR isn’t to everyone’s taste however, mainly down to the… Read more »
Yep the good old CSS box model, explained once more. The CSS box model is a fundamental element of modern web design that all web designers need to master. This CSS box model controls and details the behaviour of many HTML elements, such as DIV, P, ul, so understanding this is a firm step forwards… Read more »
Learning CSS from the beginning CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. Web designers use a CSS file to control the visual layout of a web page, grouping all styling declarations into one reference document while removing them from the HTML code that lies beneath the website. If you’re an absolute newcomer to the… Read more »
A List Apart, the original online magazine targeting ‘people who make websites’, is 10 years old. Jeffrey Zeldman, co-founder of A List Apart, has written an interesting article detailing the last 10 years for A List Apart, the history, the development and the future for the site. Ask any web developer and they would have… Read more »