Posts in the News category

• It's been a funny old year

  14 October 2010 by Clive Walker

  Earlier in the year, I found myself twiddling my thumbs on a few occasions when freelance web design work seemed to be very slow.

• Internet Explorer 9 is coming

  29 September 2010 by Clive Walker

  Internet Explorer 9 has been released in beta form with a full release due in the next few months. As a web designer and front end developer, I've been looking forward to the new browser.

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• Information is beautiful, it really is!

  05 September 2010 by Clive Walker

  Last Friday, I attended dConstruct, which is a web design and development conference in Brighton, UK. One of the presentations that really grabbed me was Information is Beautiful by David McCandless.

• New Adventures in Web Design conference

  29 July 2010 by Clive Walker

  I'm always on the look-out for good value web design conferences with great speakers and New Adventures in Web Design in Nottingham in January 2011 satisfies both those criteria.

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• London Web Standards Group meet-up

  13 July 2010 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday evening, I attended a London Web Standards Group meeting which was a Q and A with Andy Budd about UX. The meeting took place in a pub called the The Square Pig and about 40-50 people turned up.

• Create your own iPhone app quickly and easily

  04 January 2010 by Clive Walker

  The growth of the iPhone app store and market has been phenomenal in recent years. Many websites and blogs have developed their own iPhone applications as a way of promoting their brand.

• Plans for this blog in 2010?

  14 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have been thinking about what I might do with this blog next year because I want to do something that would be (for me) a bit different. I have been wanting to redesign for a while and here's an idea that I am considering.

• Advent calendar websites for web developers

  07 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  This is the time of year when online advent ‘calendars’ spring to life. As a web designer/developer, I don’t mean those nice pictorial calendars that we give to children but instead websites that publish an article a day for the first 24 days of December. Here are three that are aimed at geeks, developers, or web designers.

• See how a top designer and copy writer redesign the CannyBill website

  19 October 2009 by Clive Walker

  Have you ever wanted to get more insight into the thinking behind a website redesign? I know I have. Well, there's an interesting open design process happening at the moment with the redesign of the CannyBill website.

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• Please start from the beginning....

  04 August 2009 by Clive Walker

  Ryan Taylor has been producing a series of video interviews with famous web folks for a few months. The series is called Please Start from the Beginning.