Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Last Friday I attended Chris Mills’ talk at the Manchester Metropolitan University about HTML5 and CSS3.
Chris’ talk helped me grasp more clearly what HTML5 is going to make available and what it’s going to do for web development.
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.
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
As you may or may not know I study Multimedia Computing at MMU and a few months ago I attended a Web Standards talk by Chris Mills from Opera. The talk was aimed at people who were new to, or had only a little understand of the topic but it was still quite informative and a big step forward for the MMU computing department.
Until the release of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum last week (and subsequent blog posts) the new curriculum had slipped my mind so I thought I would quickly stick out a post about it.
I haven’t had a full look at the curriculum but with just a quick scan I spotted the following articles:
You can see that the content looks very promising and is something I’m hoping my university are supporting because I know how much further ahead in this game I would have been if I could have be taught some of this at uni.
I’m certainly going to look through the 23 articles released to date and see what I can gain and I think most web designers/developers should have a look too.
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
This part of the Web Design resources series is all about Firefox extensions. Now obviously Firefox isn’t the only browser out there but it’s pretty much the only browsers with a decent array of Web Developer tools to use.
IE has the IE Developer Toolbar which is similar to the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox and Opera are currently releasing their beta version of their browser with Dragonfly, their version of Firebug. These aside, there just isn’t the same wealth of add-ons for other browsers as their is for Firefox so I’m going to share some of my most used add-ons in the hope that you will discover some new ones.
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
There must be literally hundreds of web design books on sale right now but I’m pretty sure that a lot of them aren’t always as good as they’re cracked up to be!
In light of this I’ve compiled a list of books, most of which I’ve been able to use, to hopefully help people make the right choice when choosing a decent book.
The majority of these books are great for people who are new to the industry or who want to learn about the principals of standards based design incorporating better usability and accessibility along the way.
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
This tutorial could probably be found anywhere on the net but seen as I’ve been through the process myself I thought I would put up some of the information I’ve found.
note: This is a tutorial based on Windows XP. If you are using Windows XP Pro and have IIS running on your machine you will have to stop it before running XAMPP. Mac users should check the extra information section at the bottom of this post for some links I’ve found for doing all this stuff on a Mac.
On with the tutorial.