Category Archives: design

Clients, Users, Browsers

I spend an enourmous amount of time with browsers and knit picking the designs I build to fit them all. During the build process and my fleeting (and sometimes more than fleeting) visits to outdated browsers such as Internet Explorer …

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Front End Design, where’s the line?

Lots of high profile Web Industry Pro’s describe Front End Design/Development (what ever else you want to call it) as ‘Responsible for View Source’ and I tend to agree. We often have exposure to things outside the HTML arena though. …

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Get the System out of your System

Let me start off by saying that I am a very deep thinker and it has been said that I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. I’m not ashamed of this and it is part of who I …

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Modular layouts and content

What a difference CSS makes Left outset image. See right set image for explanation. Firstly, your eyes aren’t decieving you. For my latest post I’ve decided to show you the power of ‘Modularisation’, a technique which attempts to simplify layout, …

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Hooray for Blue Beanie Day

On 30th November 2010 it is the fourth annual Blue Beanie Day. It was founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, who was the lead author of one of my favourite books ‘Designing with Web Standards: Third Edition‘ and has among many others …

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WYGIWYS – What You Get Isn’t What You See

There are many discussions going on at the moment, on the subject of whether it is better to Redesign your old site from scratch or adopt a strategy of making seemingly small visual changes throughout the design of your site. …

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Not just a pretty face

There are so many quirks in so many different browsers, that I could not possibly account for all of them for any and every eventuality during the build process. They can arise from the simplest layout to the most detailed …

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Progressive Enhancement is a good thing

The Web of today is changing. Whether we, as Web professionals, like it or not. There are currently about 10 browsers (taking into account versions, which often differ from each other) on the market within which Web sites need to …

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Web Design Process

What are we trying to achieve? As soon as we realize that we need to plan a site before even touching the computer we allow ourselves to think freely and give ourselves the chance to produce a quality piece of …

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