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.
My Journal
Some ideas, advice, information and the occassional rant
A conversation
Previously I ranted a little about how some web experts complain when we give opposing opinions about new CSS advances and how it’s not so easy to convince clients to our way of thinking. Although I’m not pushing websites with the latest advances I have started to adopt a few touches such as border radius and box shadow.
Luckily I’ve yet to have client remark on why their website doesn’t match up in all browsers but I have thought how such a conversation might go. And also how I might convince them to use the techniques with a better argument than simply ‘websites don’t have to look the same in every browser’.
Another year and another decade over
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.
Merry Christmas
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 
Shhhhhh
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.
We’re not stupid
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.
