23Dec
As I’ve now officially finished work for the year and tomorrow will travelling across country to Cheshire I thought it best to add one last post before the inevitable blackout that is Christmas.
I’m hoping over Christmas I might write some posts ready for next year, hopefully these will include a review of my 2008, a quick mention about attending FOWD London again, most certainly some rants about clients and hopefully something of benefit to those people reading.
In the mean time however have a good Christmas and drunken New Year.
22Dec
You’re shopping online and have chosen the product you want, continue to the checkout and the form requests your house number and postcode, but does not return your address. Then what?
I’ve come across this issue numerous times, over different addresses. In most cases I’ve been able to provide a similar address, accepted by the system and have the products arrive correctly. The issue arises because of poor usability from the inconsiderate implementation of advanced functionality.
Continue reading “Usability Tip: Postal Address Forms”
18Dec
A client will always be looking to get the most for their money. One way they do this is by Web Designers presenting multiple design concepts, only for the majority of this work to become worthless when a single design is selected.
So why create multiple designs when there are so many benefits in creating just one:
1. Waste
Imagine that for each client you create three designs working a full day on each. When you go to the client to present the design they chose their favourite and the other two are binned leaving you with 2 days of work lost that could have been spent on other projects.
Continue reading “Presenting a single design”
14Dec
When developing a website I have always worked on a live development server. This allows me to build the site on the exact server setup to that the live site will run. When developing this of course can be a slow process due to the constant uploading of changes to view their impact on the website.
I’ve always viewed installing a local server such as Apache to be a complicated and messy affair. However after reading the Installing WordPress Locally post by the WebDesignerWall the process did not seem as complicated as I once imagined.
Continue reading “Premium WordPress Theme: Installing XAMPP”