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I am a website designer and web developer based in Ballymena , Northern Ireland.

I write articles in the articles section of my website, so I use this tumblog to store snippets of goodness about web design, web strategy, web development with maybe some online marketing for good measure. All things internet, excluding the crud!

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When to no When I’m incredibly passionate about something, I tend to be stubborn. And when I recognize a problem, I’m not one to keep it inside. As a result, I have had some situations with teammates and clients in which I have been rather abrasive with my delivery of a no. Fearful that I won’t be heard or understood, I have overemphasized my position to the point that people don’t hear what I said but how how I said it. Having been made aware of this issue and given the opportunity to fix it, I can freely admit now that it was getting in the way of my ultimate goal—helping people. As practitioners in design and development, there are many common difficult situations in which we may find ourselves, and there are tactful ways to handle them. Perhaps you will recognize a few of the following.
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Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.
Bob Baxley, 2003
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Amazing the rationales some will come up with regarding this issue. To me, drinking bottled water is a lot like voting Republican: you’ve been conned into doing something that is not only against your own best interest, but the welfare of all the rest of us as well.
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So what are the inherent semantic restrictions? The specification defines that where ARIA is applied to any of the above HTML elements they must have the following roles: * An
element Role must be either article, document, application, or main * An
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