February 2012
1 post
Cool Infographics | Glantz Design →
Covers most questions you may have about web design!
January 2012
1 post
Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
November 2011
4 posts
Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building... →
Uses Boilerplate and jquery and while it is responsive it would require allot of customisation to make a site truly responsive across devices. Still , like all frameworks its a great starting point
CDN Speed Test →
Thinking about using CDN for a client check out this test first!
4 Reasons Paypal Doesn't Deserve Your Money |... →
So we should be looking at alternatives
Securing Your WordPress Website →
Useful security tips for wordpress users
October 2011
1 post
Stripe →
Online payment providers who get it, at last!
September 2011
4 posts
Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences « Paul... →
Why websites shouldn’t look the same on all browsers
The Cisco Brand Identity Book and Guidelines →
Good inspiration for a thorough brand identity should you need to create one for a client, thanks Graham
Fork the Open Source CMS →
Might be worth a look. Alternative to some of the other more established CMS’s on offer like wordpress, concrete5, cushyCMS, Pixie, ModX, EE and so on…
Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements... →
Normalise your CSS. Use this file as a starting point from which to customise your CSS as you want it. Unlike many reset.css offerings it doesn’t remove useful defaults
August 2011
6 posts
HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS →
Sterling work and a great video resource that keeps up with the constant changes in our industry
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web... →
Some great best practices for aspiring web designers
Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study - Smashing... →
Why do we test? Should we just copy old paradigms blindly? I mean as a client once said to me “if X use it then I think we should just do what they do, their website looks like it has been done by experts” (I didn’t take this observation personally, having 14 years experience in the industry I have learned to be humble and shed my ego, lol) - Little did they know it was quite...
Golden Grid System →
A folding grid for responsive design, oh how love the constant progression in our industry. As my daughter would say, “its citing”
June 2011
1 post
Gridless - An awesome boilerplate for responsive,... →
HTML5 and CSS3 framework for responsive design
May 2011
4 posts
10 Tips for ensuring a better site design →
Great advice to give clients about their website design at the start of the project that could help save a lot of heartache further down the line
10 Ways for Web Designers to Upsell →
employing these all with varying degrees of success, patience is key and delivering a perception of good value paramount
invoiceto.me · Make a free invoice PDF online →
don;t want to pay for monthly subscription or just need a one of invoice every now and then, look no further.
User feedback and concept testing with Verify →
great resource for testing, but you have to find your own testers
April 2011
4 posts
Main Page - GigaPan Time Machine →
interesting concept worth a peak if you have a spare 10 mins
Ten Guidelines for Quantitative Measurement of UX... →
For all you UX practicioners, er ummm
FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web... →
Bookmarklet for your browsers to help with typography, specifically testing fallback fonts and how the page looks with them
Showoff - share localhost over the web →
Ok so you are working on a web project and you’re not quite ready to deploy to a staging server but you need someone in your team or your client to see the website, what do you do? showoff has you covered. disclosure: I am still having issues getting it to work but it looks very promising
March 2011
6 posts
Design Principles →
A nice collation of useful design principles. Thanks to Jeremy Keith for his trouble
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web →
Nice little book explaining the internet
Initializr - Start your HTML5 project in 15... →
Great way to get an HTML5 project started.
Think Quarterly →
Google’ new online magazine. I suspect this will be full of all sorts of interesting stuff. Nice grid layout and design too
Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink... →
Great for all that keyword research. You do do keyword research when designing a site. don’t you? If not you are selling your clients short!
February 2011
4 posts
Introducing Stella. Is your site fast? →
Great tool for checking if you have done your job well or not. Measures page speed and performance among other things, with free offerings and paid plans
Type study: An all CSS button « The Typekit Blog →
Great realistic buttons with CSS3
Five kinds of 'alt' text →
How to ‘correctly’ handle alt text in your mark-up
Find recipes online | Foodily →
Great website for foodies and from a UX design point of view a great example of how to deliver a usable experience
January 2011
5 posts
WVIL - Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens →
Great concept
LibreOffice, personal productivity Suite and free... →
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice, an alternative branch of the personal productivity suite OpenOffice for windows, Mac OSX and linux.
Custom Stickers, Die Cut Stickers and Laptop Skins... →
This is how to put together a custom bespoke product business. Great website, useful product
24 ways: A Contentmas Epiphany →
Good check list for content creation and content strategy for professional web projects
December 2010
2 posts
A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria →
Hidden Budgets and Fair Pricing — Robot Regime →
Without trust we have nothing, move along!
November 2010
15 posts
HTMLform.com. Build easily your HTML form just... →
This is very handy!
Wireframe Tools and Tutorials To Speed Up Your Web... →
blip.tv producer support : Subtitles for blip.tv... →
Color Management Primer →
GTI Graphiclite PDV-3e viewing stand →
Why are my prints too dark →
Forums - Illustration - Colour quality driving me... →