My Journal

I’ve not exactly been in the business that long, only 4 years, which is depressing when you discover more talented web geeks that have both more experience and happen to be younger than me.

Any way I digress.

In these four years it’s been pretty apparent that although there is some excellent work coming out of web design studios around the country that the main hubs of web types seems to be in the south, namely London, Brighton and Bath for whatever reason. And because these cities are where the web design ‘scene’ is at these cities are where most upcoming designers flock to, either working for the high profile agencies in the area or simply there to try and make connections with other web types.

Continue reading “Thankfully Conferences are coming up norf”

My day job involves me working with Photoshop or writing code, but for some reason I seem to feel a need to offer an opinion on any subject. So when asked if I’d have a go at writing about A/B testing I thought, ‘Sure, why not’.

But rather than repeat the article here, go and have a read at what is essentially an introduction to A/B testing. Then if the article peaks your interest have a go at playing with A/B testing yourself or read more into the subject so when a client comes asking you know exactly what to say.

Read the full article at Onextrapixel.

…since I last added a blog post, so this is a little catch up. I once read that you should never feel obliged to blog as that is the quickest way to get bored of blogging, plus the content you do put out can be a little poor because of it.

The reason for not blogging recently has been due to a more active social life than usual. Since the last blog I’ve been to weddings, joined a gym and being dealing with a nice case of identity fraud. It appears in some instances people need only your real name and address to be able to fuck you over.

As a side note related to this, if you ever wish to contact me please do so through twitter or my contact form, unless you’ve previously dealt with me through these you will not have my correct email address.

Continue reading “It’s been a while…”

A lot of online companies add testimonials to their website as a way to improve a prospective customer’s view of them. By adding quotes from previous customers it’s expected that it will make new customers think “how can we not work with these guys, they’re great”.

But can you trust these testimonials?

Without an upload function like comments and reviews seen on most websites it means the testimonials are hard coded into the website. Between a customer submitting a testimonial and it appearing on the website it will come across the desks of the web developers and company.

Continue reading “Testimonials – The right or wrong message?”

A website is full of the small decisions and even smaller details that together make a website what it is. Sometimes we forget the small things when we begin to chase the best of new standards and techniques available to us. So every now and again I try to focus on the small details that we sometimes forget in order to refresh the memory of the well trained designer as well as help those just starting out.

So what am I on about?

The web is built on numerous conventions, things that the general populous have learnt about the way in which we build websites that they can use from site to site. One of the best known is that clicking on a website’s logo will navigate the user to a websites homepage.

Continue reading “The Ultimate Convention”