This section covers a broad area of technical aspects to building Web sites. You’ll find a lot of tips and tricks as well as discussions on strategy and forward thinking

Local Web sites on iPad & mobile

When I build sites I, like a fair few other Web Designers, use a local server setup. For me it’s WAMP at the moment. In order to work on many peoples sites at once, not having to copy/paste or constantly …

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Don’t be an anti-semantic

I often get the feeling that there are many people who hear the word ‘Semantics’ mentioned by Front End Designers in passing but don’t really know what it means. Rather than go straight into Web Semantics & how this relates …

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Clients, Users, Browsers

I spend an enourmous amount of time with browsers and knit picking the designs I build to fit them all. During the build process and my fleeting (and sometimes more than fleeting) visits to outdated browsers such as Internet Explorer …

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jQuery Multiple Filter

For far too long I’ve been writing blog posts with way too much whimsy and outspoken statements about the Industry. Lately I have been much more focused on actually creating useful things. I feel so much more positive about my …

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Front End Design, where’s the line?

Lots of high profile Web Industry Pro’s describe Front End Design/Development (what ever else you want to call it) as ‘Responsible for View Source’ and I tend to agree. We often have exposure to things outside the HTML arena though. …

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Semantics – Screencast #1

I’ve gone and done it. My first foray into the world of screencasting. It took me since around September last year to set everything up (including a pretty major system upgrade). Another big challenge was to achieve a smooth and …

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Get the System out of your System

Let me start off by saying that I am a very deep thinker and it has been said that I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. I’m not ashamed of this and it is part of who I …

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Modular layouts and content

What a difference CSS makes Left outset image. See right set image for explanation. Firstly, your eyes aren’t decieving you. For my latest post I’ve decided to show you the power of ‘Modularisation’, a technique which attempts to simplify layout, …

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Hooray for Blue Beanie Day

On 30th November 2010 it is the fourth annual Blue Beanie Day. It was founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, who was the lead author of one of my favourite books ‘Designing with Web Standards: Third Edition‘ and has among many others …

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FOUT – What’s that all about?

What is FOUT? Flash Of Unstyled Text is a phenomenon that occurs in some browsers when using the @font-face rule in css. The @font-face rule as I’m sure most professional Front End Designers already know, is one of the most …

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