31Dec
At this time of year everyone looks back over the past year reminiscing over the things they’ve achieved and the missed opportunities. Some even look over the past 10 years as we enter 2010. I was planning on doing the same but the edited highlights sort of went like this:
Left high school, went to college, then University where I spent a year at IBM in London. Pretty much all this time I worked at McDonald’s being the best damn burger flipper they had (although they don’t actually flip the burgers). After graduating I started working for Bronco as a Web Designer, last year I moved out of my parents, quit McDonalds and that takes me pretty much up to the present day.
Continue reading “Another year and another decade over”
25Dec
If you’re reading this on Christmas day then please go back to opening presents or filling up on Turkey or chocolate. Today really isn’t a day for being sat at a computer, instead it’s a time for eating lots, watching Only Fools and Horses and spending time with the family.
If you’re still reading then all I have to say is Merry Christmas (hope you got all the presents you wanted), have a Happy New Year and I hope 2010 is a good’un.
Kean 
18Dec
One challenge of a web designer is informing clients of best practices and explain why sometimes what they want to do isn’t the best course of action. One of these best practices concerns audio on the web, or more specifically auto playing audio. Even after attempting to persuade them it is a bad idea they usually still want to go through with it. The only reason they want it is because they think it’s cool, not because it improves a website.
Continue reading “Shhhhhh”
15Dec
I’ve thought long and hard about how to kick off this post and put over a balanced argument but the point I want to make doesn’t really lend itself to that, so instead I’m going to just jump straight in:
Web experts are out of touch!
Now I don’t want to be controversial for the sake of it so I’ll explain my point of view, but first this needs some context.
Continue reading “We’re not stupid”