Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
As explained on my homepage, this design is temporary whilst I’m looking for a new job (If you know anyone, then why not contact me) and working on a more substantial design. I’m looking into using a fluid grid system and keeping things clean and simple whilst utilising some nice CSS3 properties to add some depth – we’ll see.
The reason the blog now looks like this is purely to tie it in with the homepage as it previously looked like the picture below – couldn’t have left it like that. I just did a very, very quick re-skin and tidied things up a little.
New design coming soon!
Old style blog:
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Another topic hotly debated over the last week – should Web Designers be able to code their designs?
It was Elliot Jay Stocks who accidentally reignited this debate with a tweet last week. You can read his post on the issue here: http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/web-designers-who-cant-code/
Now, I’ve not worked in the industry as long many of the commenter’s and therefore I don’t have the depth of experience that many of them have, but I do have few things to say about the point.
I generally think that it’s more important that designers understand how to design for the digital platform properly, rather than being able to code HTML and CSS. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
There’s been plenty of reviews of the Manchester leg of Speak The Web over the last week and I thought I’d say a few words about what I got out of the night.
All four speakers gave quality, relevant talks and I managed to take something away from all of them.
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