I am afflicted by a “disorder” which means I cannot immediately tell my left from my right. Ask me to put my right hand up and I have to think about it. It’s a source of much humour amongst other people but at times can be quite frustrating. I’m also not alone apparently but I have found [...]
Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Go Mocking Bird and Lovely Charts
Every now and then, simple apps come along that grab your attention. Whether you use them for an hour, a day or the rest of your life, they’re great things to have access to. One of the very great things about web based apps is just that; they are web based and so can be [...]
Looking for inspiration
A new site called Site Inspire has been setup to catalogue and catagorise websites that have been submitted to it, not by genre, but by style, theme and type.
Excuse me, you dropped your shadow…
Drop shadows, gradients and bad shading effects (along with Comic Sans!) are the bane of bad web web design and a curse of Web 2.0! Everybody’s using them. Used effectively they look great and can add real depth and dimension to a good design. Used improperly though and they smack of amateurish inexperience and band-wagon jumping (I [...]
Shaddapp@font-face!!!
Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]
Your websites performance impacts shopper behavior
I suppose it is common sense that if your website is slow to render that your customers will be dissatisfied…
Google ignores meta keywords
We’ll let Matt Cutts, from Google fill you in.
Internet addresses set to recognise non western characters
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation and country code (ccTLD) amongst other things is meeting in Seoul this week.
Coming out of that meeting it has been agreed to to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, that is set to change the way [...]
Do you want to know how it feels to be Irish…check this one out
Hey there fella. Pleasure to meet ya….ya pull the other leg…