January 7, 2016
Dear me, read this on January 1st 2017
In no particular order, during 2016 you will… … have played Handball in a country that…
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August 16, 2015
Creativity, ideas, and lightbulbs
Taking on a creative task is scary. It’s scary because we don’t have the answers…
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August 4, 2015
Asking in the right order
Pre-article note. I’m trusting you to use these techniques for the power of good! ———…
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July 20, 2015
Quality. Reliability. Being nice. Three essential values for a successful freelance design career
Sticking to a set of values gets you a long way in work, and life.…
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July 6, 2015
Timber: the missing component in WordPress development
A few weeks ago I was fortunate to freelance with the superb dev team at…
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June 23, 2015
Full page menu navigation: UX pro’s and con’s and tutorial with fixed un-scrollable body underneath.
Full page menu’s are a popular design pattern recently. Whether they slide in, pushing the…
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May 24, 2014
Really simple jQuery character countdown in textarea
Looking to build a Twitter-like textarea character countdown to show your users how much space…
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May 9, 2014
Fix for greyscale filter causing blurring on retina screens
For some reason, adding a css filter to in image – opacity, greyscale etc, causes…
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May 8, 2014
Getting position:absolute inside display:table-cell to display properly in Firefox
For the most part, the only reason I ever use display:table, and display:table-cell on the…
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April 26, 2014
Strange bug(?) on iOS: SVG background images no showing
I’ve come across this a couple of times now, you’ve set an SVG as a…
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April 18, 2014
Frontend plugins and frameworks are a last resort
It bugs me when people ask questions like “what framework to do use?” or “what…
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April 15, 2014
Attention to UX detail
The difference between a good, useful, app and a great app, is in the detail.…
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April 11, 2014
Designing like Apple
I’m currently working on an awesome new project at Sea, can’t reveal anything yet, but…
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April 9, 2014
CSS performance vs SASS nesting and @extend
I subscribe to the Treehouse newsletter, so should you, there’s always a link to something…
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April 2, 2014
noPrint class for print stylesheets
The few lines of CSS below for a base for most of my print stylesheets.…
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March 30, 2014
When to use Data URI’s
So data URI’s are pretty smart, basically it’s all the data of an image embedded…
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March 28, 2014
Are Zero Data websites the future?
Some of the biggest players in the web today have Zero Data versions of their…
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March 26, 2014
CSS clip: an accessible version of display:none;
The problem with display:none is that screen readers ignore it, generally. Which is not great…
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March 25, 2014
Some thoughts on Chris Coyier’s interview with a Hacker
I’m a long time fan of the Shoptalk Show, and the latest episode was fascinating.…
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March 24, 2014
A rule of [fat] thumb[s]
One of the many considerations when designing websites mobile first is making links and buttons…
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March 14, 2014
Design and build a website in 20 hours
Image credit: ami.responsivedesign.is Sometimes good things happen when you have a tight deadline. You’re forced…
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January 28, 2014
Text with background, padding on the end of each line, and a gap between lines
Long descriptive title. Check. Seemingly simple problem thats actually quite awkward. Check. The problem The…
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December 18, 2013
Please, no more Content Vomit
Over the past five years, maybe more, we’ve seen an explosion of stuff appearing online.…
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October 15, 2013
building mobile first with support for ie8
Sounds like a contradiction? Yes to a degree it is. But I’ve been pondering a…
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September 5, 2013
Simple responsive navigation technique
There are many solutions for achieving responsive navigation, which Brad Frost rounds up nicely here.…
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July 20, 2013
Using Terminal to set up a domain for local development
If you are a web designer it’s more than likely that you need to have…
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June 23, 2013
CSS styling for phone numbers on iPhone and iPad
iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices automatically detect phone numbers and add the tap-to-call functionality.…
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June 18, 2013
Fireworks is dead, web designers use Adobe Illustrator instead
Adobe has announced it would not be continuing to develop features for Fireworks, this doesn’t really…
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June 9, 2013
What it takes to be a modern web designer
Having worked as a web designer for a good ten years or more now, I…
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May 30, 2013
Responsive tables using Stacktable
Having recently re-skinned WTW Cinemas booking system to bring it inline with the styling of the…
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May 13, 2013
Everything a web designer needs to need to know about .htaccess
Note: this post won’t actually teach you much about .htaccess, it will simply point you…
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May 7, 2013
Why un-responsive websites annoy me
Like all web designers I started off making fixed width, usually 960px, sites. Which was…
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April 26, 2013
Everything worth knowing about on-site SEO
First up, no-one truly knows how Google and other search engines ranks websites. Google state they’re algorithms…
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