Graceful Degradation vs Progressive Enhancement

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… Read more →

WordPress, TimThumb & jQuery: Image Hover Effect

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… Read more →

Website Design For The iPhone

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… Read more →

Have To Use A Mac

After some experimentation and direction with regard to the best way to ‘draw’ in Max, the [GL] object library seems to be the way to go. The prototype was forced to refrash and redraw the screen by having a [metro] bang the [clear] element attached to the [lcd]. This meant that the screen flickered as… Read more →