Before I even begin to commence on this tiring and inevitably pesky subject, I would like to make clear that this isn’t a tutorial or much in the way of decent advice, but more of a question. I never feel I’m up to the standard as either a designer or businessman to be dishing out [...]
Of course, all designers have different views and strategies as to how a site is designed and what components go into that design. I’ve always believed in 5 core visual approaches, as also dictated in Sitepoint’s ‘The Principles of Beautiful Web Design’ (Jason Beaird – fantastic book). Jason categorises the 5 central design approaches into [...]
I [heart] open-source. To the extent where it almost limits the scripts and packages I use because I refuse to actually pay for anything – I’m sure I can find an alternative out there in the jungle of the web. This site is built with Wordpress, one of the finest open-source packages on the net. [...]
I’m a big believer in semantic, valid mark-up. Both XHTML and CSS. And it’s fairly safe to say that every website I build now contains valid code, unless in the case of integrating a complex script which makes it extremely difficult to obtain the coveted W3C valid link at the bottom of the site.
There is [...]
Just a little muse. The question in principal may seem ridiculous, but honestly – what can’t you do on the Internet? Perhaps let’s start with what you can do.
A scenario. I’m an exceptionally lazy person (I’m not – this is for the sake of my example). I’m sat at my computer, watching a film [...]
News on the grapevine – Microsoft have officially entered a bid to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Firstly, that is a sickening amount of money. Secondly, this seems another attempt to monopolise another market.
I understand the computer world was Microsoft’s upbringing – it’s home territory. Over the past few years it’s managed to wrestle it’s [...]
It seems I’m on fire at the moment. As well as finally getting round to creating a blog site, today (1st Feb) is the launch date of my new web-based company: Sans Design!
For those of you interested in the name, it’s a bit of a joke. ‘Sans’ is Latin, meaning ‘Without’. Therefore ‘Without Design’ is [...]
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