For years web designers have had to deal with compatibility issues across multiple browsers and for just as many years have had to accept content being displayed in slightly different ways. This is unlikely to change soon but the differences are becoming fewer and fewer. To make the most of this you need to choose [...]

This post is about using TimThumb to create an on-the-fly, greyscale image thumbnail of the first image in a post and use jQuery to fade in a colour version on top creating a nice effect. Let me also say that this is not in-depth and is not for beginners as I’m not going to walk [...]

Recently there has been a lot of press about new standards coming in across all aspects of the web. HTML5 and CSS3 offering us many new features and some not-so new ones but making them standards to which everone can adhere to (I’m taking to you Microsoft).This coupled with the recent release of Safari 4 [...]

Recently I have been taking a course provided by the W3C on mobile best practices designed to give the participant the best ways in which to design for mobile. Topics covered are things such as graceful enhancement and graceful failure, designing specifically to allow access on various mobile browsers and adding enhancements to the site [...]

“Yeah I’m a web designer” That response to a question about your chosen career path used to lead people to think that you live in your parent’s basement, wore square glasses taped together, wore your trousers too high, were bad with girls and were generally a massive nerd. Oh how times have changed (for some). [...]

I have been looking at lot recently at portfolio designs and ‘creative’ websites and wondered whether I should be trying to compete with them. Compilations such as ’30 Fresh and Inspirational Portfolios With A Twist’ from Smashing Magazine are fantastic as portfolio pieces and happen to be portfolios which seems to be a perfect combination. [...]

With New Designers coming up rapidly there has been much fretting about who is doing what and who is designing what. With myself and a few others being on an internship at Samsung it has proved hard to keep things consistent. After much arguing through many emails I have decided to defer my vote to [...]

Here are a few more images showing a few more refined areas of the proposed blog design. The main blog page now has extra items on the left at an angle which will need to be images and have a image map to create links. Then there is a more detailed side bar for the [...]

While most of the problems with permalinks can be dealt with by a fresh install of WordPress there are a few things that aren’t. I have recently solved a problem that was not affected by the WordPress re-install. The problem is when you get a 404 error page when you click on the permalink. The [...]