Archive for 2007

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
  • Great principles that really are obvious when you look at design: * Technology Serves Humans * Design is not Art * The Experience Belongs to the User * Great Design is Invisible * Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication *
    (tagged: advice art commentary creativity design webdesign webdev visualization web useful usability tips technology tech standards rules social graphics insightful philosophy read reference research readme reading education dev inspiration)
  • A designer not worth his weight in sand blames Web Standards for not being ‘conducive to creativity’, and Andy presents an argument, finishing with "The bottom line is, if there is something you cannot do with design online it’s because of your ignoranc
    (tagged: article business computer css design inspiration resources dev standards web webdesign webstandards rants usability work communication)

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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
  • Pay-for flash toolset to create really nice and powerful flash slideshows. Slideshows that tell stories kick ass.
    (tagged: widget website webmaster webdevelopment web web2.0 utilities tutorial tool templates tech swf slideshow resources programming pretty plugins plugin pictures picture photography photo online navigation media layout internet interface interesting interactive info images graphics gallery flash easy download development dev design cool art animation ajax actionscript)
  • Take good semantic markup, add some javascript to detect flash and grab your content and feed it into a Flash SWF, then replace the original content with the SWF — GENIUS, and it’s not hard either! Flash OWNS ME.
    (tagged: flash webdesign design javascript sifr reflection actionscript ajax article cool swf web graphics semantics markup)
  • What tech employers will be looking for on your CV — Skills Section is not useful to the employer — but recruitment agencies (who don’t know java from javascript) love them… Tweak accordingly.
    (tagged: career resume jobs tips howto cv advice article business communication development engineering design writing work words useful tools tutorial tutorials time technology search reference reading read productivity personal money marketing management list lifehack lifehacks life language interesting interviews guide)
  • The real world of doing stuff in Standards… she’s a harsh mistress ;)
    (tagged: tips webstandards work xhtml webdev webdesign css development standards)
  • A great introduction to bash for those who may have never used a computer before Windows 98. Great stuff :)
    (tagged: article bash books coding computer computers debian development free geek guide howto interface learning links linux macosx opensource osx programming read reading reference scripting shell software tech technology terminal tips tools tutorial unix useful webdev)

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Talking at a seminar on New Media

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Hello to all those who saw me talk at CID’s seminar today. Here’s the slides and my notes for the talk I made:

“The New Internet: Communicating on Today’s Web” Slides

I had a great time sharing about the exciting new ways to get your audience involved, and the feedback I got from you all was really great — feel free to ask questions in the comments here — cheers!

People, you don’t need to play to Big Media’s rules anymore — the rules are changing, and if your audience is discerning, they’ll follow you as long as you’ve got the goods.  But with great power comes great responsibility: use the tools wisely :)

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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
  • Tiny houses — a fascinating prospect. "… in a tiny house you end up by default you end up experiencing this distilled way of living, whether that ends up being desirable or oppressive is individual…"
    (tagged: design housing tiny small land photos slideshow lifestyle interesting)
  • Wow, the answer to have lots of objects using one database connection was easy: a Singleton class. Lots of other great patterns in there that look really important too :)
    (tagged: coding design howto designpatterns interface php programming strategy patterns)
  • A great introduction to the serverless, file-based database system — great if you’re without MySQL or PostGres
    (tagged: intro php php5 programming sql tutorial web sqlite zend)

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
  • Wow, this creates anti-aliased rounded corner speech bubbles unobtrusively! amazing :)
    (tagged: css webdesign design corners bubbles html speech webdevelopment website web templates style scripting sample resources quotes web2.0 reference programming library layout images howto free downloads download dhtml development dev cool coding code blogs archive icons work)
  • Looks to be a really powerful windows text editor… might roll this one out in classrooms… Open Source too…
    (tagged: freeware editor software programming tools opensource windows work useful text tool hex editors downloads download dev development coding apps applications)
  • (tagged: webdesign standards design css webstandards web accessibility webdev webdevelopment webmaster work semantics readme read layout interface development data article)
  • Quote: "I’ll use the <ul> element to mark up an unordered list, because that’s what it’s for, I’ll use <blockquote> to mark up a block of quoted text because that’s what it’s for, I’ll use <em> for emphasis because that’s what it’s for
    (tagged: webstandards webdesign accessibility html reference semantics standards web webdevelopment work webdev webmaster www)
  • Various guidelines that (X)HTML coders need to take seriously.
    (tagged: css html markup webdesign webstandards webdev design webdevelopment xhtml web usability unobtrusive technology teaching standards semantics scripting resources reference read readme list javascript internet info howto guide cool content coding code article accessibility)
  • Great article on CSS and different form elements and how various browsers will render them… it’s not pretty…
    (tagged: xhtml work weird website webmaster webdevelopment webdev webdesign web2.0 useful web usability typography tips text technology testing reference read programming pretty markup osx list layout html howto hacks guide development design css code browser blogging bestpractices article forms form)
  • Spoilers: Love what you do, Never stop learning, Specialise, Get a killer portfolio, Network like crazy, Manage your time, Build your reputation. All common sense. Great advice to my web students.
    (tagged: business career css design html productivity tips webdesign webdev webdevelopment work freelance)
  • Lots of sexy black glass buttons for the use of everyone :D
    (tagged: design download downloads free freeware graphicdesign graphics illustration image images interesting interface layout library list photoshop pictures programming resources sample stock vector web web2.0 webdesign webdev webdevelopment website work buttons Icons)

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