Smashing Magazine’s Responsive Design

Smashing Magazine is an excellent resource for all things web design and I think they’ve done a good job overall with their recent responsive redesign. However, I can’t help feeling a little punished for using a larger resolution… At 1024 wide, clean & clear: At 1366 wide, overpowered by ads!: Obviously these images are scaled [...]

Theme, Sublime, Build, IISExpress

So phase one of the new theme is done. You’re currently looking at a totally bare-bones theme (unless you’re looking back at this post in the future) which I’ll be building from in the coming weeks. To get this far most of the work has been in the project setup which you can find on [...]

Developing a new theme

The irony of my previous post about responsive design being presented on a site which offers no form of responsive design was not lost on me. I shall be working on rectifying this in the coming weeks. I’m going to aim to do this step by step and apply the results to the live site [...]

Responsive Design – Test on devices

In my recent explorations of responsive design, I’ve noticed I frequently just change the width of my desktop browser window to quickly review the responsiveness of a site. This typically demonstrates how the site will react in terms of layout but is of very limited actual benefit because the experience of a desktop browser is [...]

What iOS and WP7 are doing right and Android is doing wrong

As noted in a previous post, I recently picked up a Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7. Before that I had a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone and an iPhone 3G before that. One major thing that has stuck out to me across these three platforms is that Apple and Microsoft have relinquished nothing [...]

2011 > 2012 what was and will be…

Well the festive season is over and after a much needed break I’m winding up ready to get back to work and tackle 2012. This is my attempt to reflect and summarise 2011 and some thoughts on looking towards 2012 and what it may entail. 2011 New company website At the beginning of 2011 we [...]

Nokia Lumia 800 – New Toy

Today I picked up a new phone, the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone and before that I had the iPhone 3G. I haven’t disliked any of these phones but I’ve switched platforms each time because I love trying new and different things. They all have [...]

‘Client Centric Software Development’

Paul Boag is: … on a mission to convince the web design community that working with clients can be enjoyable, constructive and creates outstanding websites. One of his key messages is that the traditional approach for building a website is essentially “big bang” development. Every few years a website is overhauled and redeployed to great [...]

Testing Windows Live Writer

I’ve heard of Windows Live Writer before but never really gave it a second thought. I just discovered it’s pre-installed on Windows 7 so thought I’d give it a try. First impressions are that it’s interesting how it detects site styles and applies them to the editor (a desktop application). As I’m about to go [...]

Why IBM don’t get it

Last week at the European Software Conference I attended a presentation by Chris Bray of IBM about… well IBM. Chris is a good presenter and gave a nice whistle stop tour of what IBM have been up to over the past 100 years including highs and lows. One thing that stood out to me though [...]