25Jan
There are some clients that love a design so much they don’t change a thing about it. Some ask for changes that come at a point where they’re easy to do and cause no real problems. Then there are those that ask for changes that take ages to do, remove work that took ages to complete or simply, in my view, ruin a design. It’s at these points that working on a project can be a little soul destroying.
Sure the reaction is extreme and the people I work with have known me long enough to know the kind of reaction I have to some client changes but I’m starting to believe the place the frustration comes from is good, even if the outlet can be a little over the top.
Continue reading “I’m an artist godammit”
19Jan
I’ve been keeping this one under wraps until it actually happened but today my first guest post on Onextrapixel was published. The article is titled Put Your eCommerce Checkout on a Diet Plan and talks about stripping back a website checkout to improve sales. I’m hoping people find it useful and informative as I really put in some work to make sure it was good enough.
Aidan at Onextrapixel approached me just before Christmas asking if I’ve be interested in writing for a site he helps run. Guest writing is something I was definately interested in but I had to make sure the time and effort would be worth it. As I’d come across Onextrapixel before I was pretty confident the site had a sizeable readership, but once I found it was part of the Smashing Network I was pretty much sold, and rather giddy at the prospect. It really has been a struggle to not tell people but I wanted to make sure it would be happening first and I only let slip to a close friend this past weekend.
Continue reading “Guest writing at Onextrapixel”
14Jan
The title pretty much says it all. Today I spent the best part of the day trying to solve a problem that I wasn’t even sure anyone had ever experienced before. After hours of wishing a painful death to the site I was supposed to be lovingly crafting I came across an unusual solution.
The problem in a nutshell
For font replacement I use Cufon, and the site I’m currently working on uses it for a number of headings and links. To get the hover effect of links working properly with Cufon you have to add {hover:true} into the cufon.replace function. This is where the problems started.
Continue reading “Cufon makes IE8 jump a few pixels on hover”
11Jan
As my review of the year/decade wasn’t really up to much I thought I try again, but do something a little different. So rather than a roundup of my life it’s going to be a roundup of my blog. I can’t promise that any of this information is going to be of use to anyone but it keeps the blog ticking over with regular articles and to be honest my mind is a little preoccupied with another article that I’ll fill you in on sometime soon. So here goes with some fun info.
Continue reading “A bit of a round up”