Posts in the Web Design category
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Some simple productivity tips for busy freelancers
27 October 2009 by
I went through a period last year when I was snowed under with work. That should be a good thing but if you are running your own web business, working from home, or freelancing from an office, getting everything done when you are in this situation can be quite stressful. I was the only person doing the work, answering telephone calls and emails, chasing up clients for payment, trying to keep in touch with the latest CSS methods, and an assortment of other daily administration tasks that I needed to do. Sometimes it felt like I was on a merry-go-round and could not get off.
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See how a top designer and copy writer redesign the CannyBill website
19 October 2009 by
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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Blockquotes and CSS styling
23 September 2009 by
I have been busy with a new website that includes several customer comments about the business in question. That’s great but how should I code it? In this case, I thought it would be best to use the <blockquote> tag/element in my HTML. If you don’t use this tag, you should because it’s really quite useful both as a meaningful way of marking up your content and as a tag that you can style. I also decided to use the cite element. Normally, I include the <cite> tag within the <blockquote> and wrap it round the name of the person who made the comment/quote.
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Tips to help make your website more mobile-friendly
15 September 2009 by
This is not a comprehensive article about developing a mobile device strategy for your website. It’s simply some tips that are based on a couple of things that I have implemented recently so that this blog is more easily viewable on mobile or cell phones. In my case, I am assessing each of my personal websites in order to determine whether I want to make them more mobile-friendly. If Yes, my plan is that I will not be creating separate mobile websites but will be optimising the existing websites.
Info: There are several mobile device website strategies that you may consider [including the option of doing nothing]. Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Book is a good place to start if you want to know more.
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Interviewed for The Web Design Blog
10 September 2009 by
Fellow UK web designer Phil Matthews recently asked me to answer a few questions as part of an interview series on The Web Design Blog.
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How I got into the web industry
01 September 2009 by
I have been thinking about career paths and jobs recently [perhaps as a result of these video interviews with famous web folks] because it seems that many people in the web industry have taken an interesting route into their current careers. I’m not sure how interesting my own career path is but it is perhaps more different than most. Here it is…
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Please start from the beginning....
04 August 2009 by
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.
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It's time to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6, surely?
27 July 2009 by
Just now, I fired up an old Windows 98 PC to look at a recent website amendment in Internet Explorer 6. That means using a PC that is approximately eight years old to view my website in a browser of a similar age. How ridiculous is that?
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Why web standards should be important to clients
22 June 2009 by
There's a nice summary of the benefits of web standards in an article called Tell your clients why web standards should matter to them on the That Web Guy Blog.
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Clearing floats with the overflow property
18 June 2009 by
Using the float property is a fundamental part of the tools that we use as web designers/developers when wrangling with CSS. Floating an image is probably one of the most common tasks when we want to align the image either left or right within a containing block [div or paragraph]. However, use of the float property comes with its own problems and chief amongst these is that often we need to ‘clear the float’ so that other elements [often the element that contains the floated element] behave in the way that we want. Here’s a method I have used recently.