Web Design
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Green My South By
Once again, I feel the duty falls upon me to remind those attending this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, that you really need not pick up that big, heavy, cumbersome and frankly useless bag of marketing junk.
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A Green Focus
I ended my review of 2009 promising to write more about green issues and how I plan to lessen my impact on the environment. Now I expand on those ideas further.
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A New Visual Design Language for BBC Online
I’m a huge supporter of the BBC, yet for many years I was unimpressed with much of it’s online output, where inconsistent design and poor implementation reflected badly upon one of our country’s greatest institutions.
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URLs Matter
The humble URL has been on my mind a lot recently. Through a series of developments, this simple means of addressing the wonders of the web has been obfuscated and abused, to the point that it’s now seen as difficult to use and an affront to users.
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The Multipack Turns Four
The web development community has certainly grown up in the last four years.
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Birmingham City Council Versus the ‘Twitterati’
Last week Birmingham City Council launched its new £2.8m website. Delayed, over budget and woefully inadequate, it rightly faced a storm of criticism on Twitter and from the local press.
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Upcoming Attractions
As Summer hurtles towards it’s conclusion (and let’s assume for a second that it actually started) so the anticipation for two very special geeky events can begin.
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The Multipack Presents: Being Green
After the success of the first ‘Multipack Presents’ event in February, so we return to the plush offices of One Black Bear, this time to learn how the web can help us become eco-friendly citizens.
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The Multipack Presents…
Every year the Multipack — a community of web developers based in the Midlands — seems to undergo a renewal, finding confidence to try new things. This year is no different.
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Entry Archives, Grouped by Month in Movable Type
I have been using Movable Type for a number of years, yet the template code required to present an archived list of entries, grouped by month has always evaded me.
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@media 2006
At the end of last week I attended the @media conference in London, the premier web-standards conference held in the UK. Having enjoyed myself so much last year, I was really looking forward to this, but somehow, I’ve come away feeling a little disappointed with the whole affair.
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Busy (and Fun) Month Ahead
Although June is already pretty much done and dusted, there is still a little bit of fun coming my way this month.
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I Feel So Naked!
For today only, I’m letting you see under my CSS clothes and peak at my muscular (semantic) physique.
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The ‘We’ in Web
Yesterday saw the inaugural meeting of a new Midlands based web community. This comes at a time when I’m noticing that I’m part of a much larger community within our industry.
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Virtually Famous in Langshott
Whilst fixing some css bugs for the next revision of the rdc* theme I had an interesting thought regarding it’s code name — does it rank higher in Google than the village it’s named after?
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Reflecting on @media 2005
In traditional fashion, a week has passed before I can finally bring you my thoughts on what was certainly an interesting and exciting two days in London.
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Recent Web Work
Time for a little update on some recent websites I’ve been involved with.
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Geekend
This weekend has, more than any other weekend, seen me glued to this 17" display.
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Unmovable Headache
My new blog continues to become more refined as I better understand the system that builds it, Movable Type.