I just published a blog post over at The Snow Patrol, in turn relating to a discussion at Econsultancy about the growing trend in e-commerce platforms to be reliant on Javascript.
It would seem that it’s often a tall order to build sites in a way that will work without Javascript as the baseline, but instead […]
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Javascript, e-commerce and progressive enhancement
1 March, 2010 in Design, JavaScript and e-commerce. 0 CommentsLast week, a group of us went along to the Tate Modern to see one of their current exhibitions - Pop Life: Art in a Material World.
“Good business is the best art.”
— Andy Warhol
Pop Life explores a newer generation of artists that have made use of the media to capitalise on their art and indeed […]
E-commerce mavens (and benevolent employers) Snow Valley were lovely enough to send a couple of us along to dConstruct 09 down in Brighton last week. This was a good thing, as dConstruct was a quality conference with lots of food for thought.
Hopefully slides or videos of the talks will be put up soon. I’d […]
Now that the dust has settled on the launch of TurnTubelist a bit, not to mention Mr Speaker’s awesome continual improvements, I thought I’d share some thoughts about a few possible next steps, at least as far as user experience goes. If you haven’t had a play, go there now.
None of these are set in […]
TurnTubelist wins first prize at Webjam 8
27 September, 2008 in Technical, Personal, Featured, Design and JavaScript. 2 CommentsUPDATE: Webjam 8 vids are up. Check out the Turntubelist presentation at the end of this post.
UPDATE 2: TurnTubelist is now LIVE. Go now and play with it and let us know what you think. We are still tweaking it but we decided to get it up and out there. More details to come soon…
So […]
Last week I attended the very excellent @media 2008 web design and development conference at the Southbank Centre here in London. There were some great presentations by Indi Young, Andy Clarke and others but I’d have to say Jeffrey Veen’s presentation was probably the most interesting for me, entitled Designing Our Way Through Data. Veen […]
Acrobat.com: Adobe’s new online collaboration tools… Nice.
2 June, 2008 in Technical and Design. 0 CommentsNot long ago, I metnioned Adobe’s launch of Photoshop Express, a beginner-friendly web version of their famous photo editor. It would seem that they weren’t satisfied with that so they’ve gone and launched Acrobat.com, a suite of collaborative tools which “you can use to create documents together and share them with others”.
Adobe have launched […]
Last year I wrote about SitePoint’s design contest site, a place where businesses can crowdsource spec work from designers. SitePoint has since spun this off into its own site, 99 Designs, which is the same as what SitePoint Contests was but wrapped up in an uninspiring design. I recommend taking a gander at Kevin Potts’ […]
We were recently discussing some quotes from Apple man Steve Jobs around the office, where he talked about his philosophy when it comes to design:
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
BusinessWeek, May 25 1998
So you can’t go […]
Well, looks like Adobe has pulled another one out of the bag with Photoshop Express, a web-based Flash application that lets you colour adjust, retouch and add effects to your photographs without installing anything.
The interface is really easy to use and it looks as though this is aimed at your average non-designer web user, with […]
A List Apart’s latest edition (#254) is all about design, and approaches the subject from two very different angles.
Naz Hamid has written about perfecting your designs by paying attention to all the little details. I wasn’t hugely impressed by this article. I echo some of the comments made in that the article didn’t offer a […]
So SXSW 2008 is on at the moment. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since I attended last years Interactive festival. How time flies and all that.
So the web awards winners have been announced. The very talented mob at Preloaded took out the game category as well as best of show with […]
I’ve always been a fan of clean design, and keeping things simple and to the point. I’m getting a lot of opportunities to put that into practice at Snow Valley over here in London. With this in mind I’m once again contemplating a redesign. Typical web designer behaviour no doubt, and later this year will […]
This was going to be a happy 2008 post but half way through February makes it a bit late for that, and I’m not going to make it a Valentine’s Day (”You’ll Do” day) themed post. So anyway, what’s news here then?
The significant other and I are still living it large in London-town. We’ve […]
I’ve just come across SitePoint’s design contests site. It is presumably intended to be a way for smaller businesses to be able to choose from a variety of creative solutions for a fixed “prize” amount. Sorry, but I’m just not a fan of this concept at all.
This is not just another in a recent […]
A JavaScript overlay image gallery
28 August, 2007 in Technical, Web Standards, Design and JavaScript. 5 CommentsWe interrupt the travelogues to talk about some geeky stuff that’s been going on around these parts.
I’ve recently been using grids of thumbnails to link to Flickr photos as they relate to blog posts (e.g. my previous post). One thing I’ve wanted to do is find a way to show these images without sending viewers […]
Gradient Dropshadow Curve turns 3…
16 August, 2007 in General, Blogging, Personal and Design. 2 CommentsTime goes by, we get a little older. We travel through 4 continents, we move to other countries and get new jobs.
This blog sees another year… yes that’s 3 years of half-arsed blogging.
It’s August again…
(And I *did* get that redesign done!)
Dallas, Austin and SXSW, USA
14 August, 2007 in Technical, Personal, Travel, Web Standards, Design, Usability and Games. 2 CommentsEarly March saw us say goodbye to my Mum at San Francisco airport and move on to Dallas and Austin, Texas. A visit to the Sixth Floor Museum and a little boozing with the very hospitable Jade and Carter lightened up the otherwise dull city of Dallas before we hit Austin, the jewel in the […]
The new site is up and in time for the Nov 1 Reboot!
I’m still ironing out the odd issue here and there, but it’s pretty much all there so have a squiz about the place…
A few features:
Much more customised Wordpress implementation, different page templates rather than the usual Wordpress one size-fits-all approach
Liquid/elastic layout. The layout […]
Here’s a sneak preview of one element of my new site design… The marvellous Anton of AntonGraphics has generously developed a character for use in my new site design in exchange for some solid XHTML and CSS (on his soon to be relaunched portfolio site) and of course the money he normally pays me to […]
McFarlane Prize - Highly Commended award
29 September, 2006 in Technical, Personal, CSS, Web Standards, Design and Usability. 2 CommentsCongratulations Glass Onion, for the inaugural McFarlane Prize 2nd place “Highly Commended” award for a great team effort on the ACPE website.
It’s great that the McFarlane Prize is giving recognition to developers not only for good design but for all round well built solutions. Building to web standards and best practices is seldomly valued or […]
McFarlane Prize - shortlisted!
28 September, 2006 in CSS, Web Standards, Design and Usability. 3 CommentsRegretfully, I couldn’t get to the Web Directions conference this year, but it was a pleasant surprise to be invited to attend the closing session of said conference, and award ceremony for the inaugural McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian Web Design.
I’ll be going along representing Glass Onion, shortlisted for the design and development […]
Okay, the word is now officially out - the lovely Megan and I are embarking on an extended around the world trip, spanning five continents stopping at London for an extended period where we will work and continue the European leg of our trip. We plan to be away from Sydney for about 18-24 months.
Prior […]
While I’m sharing techniques, here’s one I’ve been playing around with recently, for making simple CSS drop caps. Y’know, starting a written piece with a nice big letter…
Skip straight to the examples here: Example 1, Example 2.
I know this isn’t new, and can probably be achieved in a variety of ways. I do it by […]
I’m working on a project at the moment that involves making recommendations on information architecture and user experience, along with a general re-skin for a new online e-learning application and the website that contains it. It should be officially released in a few months and it’s got substantial backing, so I’m hoping it gets some […]
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