My Journal

Many a designer has mentioned the lack of design in the Google homepage and at FOWD Tour Leeds last week it was fleetingly mentioned again. This time however it lit a spark and I thought it might be a fun experiment to see what I could do.

Continue reading “Google Redesigned”

This may get me in hot water but to be honest I’m getting pissed off with the constant hatred for IE6 from web professionals and the double standards this creates.

Users, users, users

So many professionals will talk about the user till they’re blue in the face, which is only right as we work in an industry where pleasing the user is the primary goal. But when IE6 is involved all this stuff just doesn’t seem to matter anymore.

Unfortunately many web developers have taken a strong stance against IE6, conducting what can only be called a witch hunt against the aging browser. Some of this mob arm themselves with morally questionable update messages or simply lock down a site to anyone using IE6. These are aggressive actions to take aimed firmly at the best interests of the developer and not the user.

Continue reading “Lay off IE6″

When a client approaches a design agency for a website either as a representative of a company or for themselves they should have assessed exactly what they are willing to pay for a website. If a client doesn’t have a budget then they really don’t need a website. The way I see it if a client isn’t prepared to figure out something so basic it’s a waste of time because more often than not these are the people that think they can get a website for £100.

Continue reading “Client Tip 1: The Budget”

Earlier in the year I was faced with an issue of integrating a Twitter feed into a website, problem was the website wasn’t using WordPress. At the time it appeared like every Twitter plugin available was built to integrate with the popular blogging platform. At the time I was able to hash together a working PHP function but over time problems kept coming up resulting in much needed improvements. Finally I think I have something that’s fairly indestructable.

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After an initial decision to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7 following the anti-trust court ruling it appears Microsoft have come up with another solution. Rather not bundle IE they have offered is to add competitor browsers into the install and present options for users to choose which browser they require.

Although this solves the stupid idea of not having any browser it’s still a stupid idea and here’s why:

Continue reading “IE inviting friends to the Windows 7 party?”