Weblog date: March 2004
I've visited Cameron Moll's site a few times but for some reason I'd never gotten beyond the home page. I'd read the posts there, followed the links, but never actually explored the site. Today, for...
Apparently, www.business.gov.uk, which I worked on with Nykris, won best site at the IVCA awards last night. Fantastic! Many congratulations to everyone who worked on it. The next version is even...
The word is that www.business.gov.uk has been nominated for Best Website at the IVCA Business Communication Awards... That'd be the first time a site I've worked on has been nominated for anything!...
I try not to swip too many links straight from my daily reads but this one from Mezzoblue was just too good... It's the portfolio sites of the Digital Media students at Malaspina University, Canada....
It's been a while since I posted anyting about usability but I came across this article this morning and there were a few things in there that surprised me... It's an article on form usability, which...
Dan Cederholm over at SimpleBits has written a short post comparing web standards to DIY... That may sound slightly implausible but the analogy really works - standard sizes for common household...
Here's another one to add to the collection of commercial site redesign case study articles... It's an interview between WaSP and Todd Dominey, who recently redesigned the PGA.com and PGA Championship...
I read an article ages ago (I can't remember where though) about user-centric design and I was immediately converted. I have only had the opportunity to put it into practice once, but I found the...
This is a pretty mad idea... Basically, someone found a manequin head in a thrift store and took some photos of it. Then it was sent to another photographer friend and the Traveling Head project was...
28mm is a really nice online photography magazine. It's obviously been around for a while but I've never come across it before. The work up there is varied and the links to the photographers' personal...
The CSS Zen Garden has scooped the Best of Show award at SXSW 2004 Web Awards! Congratulations to Dave Shea and all the contributors. It's a great site and an incredible showcase for CSS. Oh, and...
It hadn't really occurred to me before but it does seem that a lot of people get so caught up in their attempt to comply with web standards that they lose sight of their ultimate goal: to produce...
It's taken a while but my photos section is finally back up and running... It took me just long enough that all my pictures have dropped off Google. Fingers crossed they'll be reindexed soon....
As a freelance coder I developed the 2004 site for the BBC's coverage of the popular Eurovision Song Contest....
There's been a really good discussion of web standards and their uptake going on over at asterisk over the past few days. Keith called on beginners and pros alike to say what they thought the barriers...
This was the second phase of the XHTML/CSS/Accessible redesign of the the UK government's business information site. The site went on to take gold at the prestigious 2004 IVCA Awards and was commended...
Dean Edwards has put together a sweet little DOM script that apparently fixes some of IE's more glaring CSS omissions. The fixes seem to be IE5.5/IE6 only (the pages I tried with IE5 didn't load at...
Wow, the Zen Garden has done it again... The latest 3 designs are possibly my 3 favourites so far. Oceans apart isn't anything groundbreaking but it's incredibly elegant design very well executed....
Over the last week or so Dave Shea has been reporting on the growing interest in the CSS Zen Garden from various web design magazines and books around the world. He's getting some seriously good...
Vodaphone have created an incredibly slick, high-bandwidth site to promote their R&D department's work. They've used streaming Flash video (Comm Server), slick transitions, heavy media, large...
If I had a penny for every time I've had to Google CSS hacks, I'd be quite a lot richer than I currentky am. I'd never found a truly definitive list of hacks and filters... The CSS wiki is pretty good...
I'm back from Chamonix! Despite trying my best, I've managed to return without any major injuries at all. I'm not sure how that happened. The worst damage I've sustained is a few small grazes on my...