…and this time it’s personal.
Another month, another redesign. I think this all stems from the fact that I have never really been 100% happy with my website.
So, it is back to basics. With an update of WordPress comes their default theme, so I can concentrate on the content before I work on a custom design.
CSS shorthand is to me a no brainer and it’s use can have huge benefits – some of which include smaller file sizes, less code to read and it makes files quicker and easier to comprehend and maintain.
In this post I’m going to be talking about box styling – any CSS effects that can be implemented on all 4 sides of an element. This can include:
Having just set up a new site, called Typography Links on tumblr, I wanted to know how many people actually click on the links to the sites that I post.
Having used tumblr for the first time, I didn’t know of any way to track this, and although I could use a URL shortening service like bit.ly, i’ve never been a huge fan, as they mask the location you are being directed to.
It baffles me how Twitter, with all it’s brainpower can’t handle URLs properly. For example, highersites.co.uk wouldn’t appear as a link, nor would www.highersites.co.uk, and yet whilst typing this on my phone, the WordPress app asked if I wanted to make a link.
Nobody *ever* types the http:// unless they have to, and especially when that alone takes up 5% of the total tweet length.
And this Twitter URL thing makes the whole thing look even more ridiculous. I mean, why rewrite all of the domains, when the tweets become unreadable, especially if you want to refer to the domain name.
Does this annoy anybody else, or is it just me?
I am a real fan of responsive web design, however there are many more sites (and books) that can explain the topic far better than I can (I’ll list a few at the end of the post).
In short, if you don’t know what it means, it is the idea of a site design that changes its layout depending on the device screen size that is viewing it.
With smartphones and tablets being so popular in the last few years, many more people are browsing the web on these devices, and providing an optimum design for these devices makes sites more engaging, easier to read and better suited to the device.
I saw this post today and immediately wanted to collate my own list. So here are my top 5 games of all time:
It’s a believe I have had for a while now, which it seems is widely shared. I read this post today by Jim Mitchem called “Consumption vs Creation” which echoes my belief:
In the end, you are what you consume. And if you’re not doing your share of creating, you’re like a vegetable soaking up the sun in preparation of one day being harvested. By advertisers.
Fellow designer at HigherSites and Creative Director, Tom Wittlin recently launched his online personal site Take the Flight and the copy really struck a cord with me, as it is always something I have believed in to:
It’s about what feels right… design was always something I felt I wanted to do.
To this day I tend to go with what feels right, as opposed to going with current trends, especially within design.
There is a lot to be said for going with your gut instinct, although having reasons to back up your decisions always help when you are showing a client, because when they say ‘it doesn’t feel right’ it usually means back to the drawing board for you!
I was really proud to be featured in this months edition of .net magazine. As it is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, to be a part of the magazine was a privilege and an honour.
Not wanting to dignify this hack-of-a-theme as a redesign, it it, of sorts.
With a predicted increase in traffic soon-ish the objective to make the content a little more legible (than black-on-red) and to actually display some of my work, which for the meantime means hooking in a Dribbble gallery thing.
But as my sole presence on the way, it by no means reflected myself as a designer (and sometimes developer).
Work has begun on the new site, which you’ll probably see on dribbble in the near future.