This weekend I attended my first WordCamp, down South in Portsmouth. I’ve been to other web conferences (notably DIBI earlier this year) but as a WordPress nut I was really excited to attend an event purely focused on my favourite CMS. So, how was it? Inspiring & humbling. Continue reading →
Say ‘hello’ to SupportPress
Today, the second theme developed by a collaboration of myself, Mike Jolley and Woo Themes is available to purchase. Continue reading →
Project Effort & Responsibility
A simple way to determine how much effort you’ve put in to a project individually is to ask your self what level of responsibility you’d accept if the project were to fail.
Create delightful experiences
Recently I watched an interview of Matt Mullenweg talking about Automattic (WordPress in particular) and one segment of the conversation resonated strongly with me. Matt describes the WordPress experience as being all about the end user. At the core of it’s existence is that one philosophy – “make users happy with enjoyable experiences using our software”. Continue reading →
Holiday
Tomorrow I’m jetting off on holiday with Hayley. I can’t wait to spend a week away from the computer, relaxing and recharging my batteries.
Emails shall be addressed upon my return.
Sayonara!
Photograph by TeddyScoot
Responsive design using CSS3 media queries →
Pure CSS 3D ribbon
In a recent project I set myself the challenge of creating a pure CSS ribbon effect using as little markup as possible. Why? I’m big on progressive enhancement and love how css3 empowers us to create attractive UIs without using hefty imagery. You can see the result in this jsFiddle;
The ribbon is achieved using a single block level element with the class ribbon wrapped around a child element with the class ribbon-content. In this example I’ve used a paragraph containing a strong tag to demonstrate how semantic the code can be.
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FaultPress – revolutionary bug tracking / ticketing WordPress theme now available →
Exciting projects
At work I’m fortunate enough to have the opportunity to design and build web sites for some great clients. But being somewhat of an entrepreneur, what really gets me excited is seeing my own, or a teams idea come to life.
I’m currently working on two such projects and as I am yet to make a post about work, I’d like to introduce them today.
Don’t be afraid to go back to the drawing board
In the past I’ve designed interfaces which I believed to be aesthetically pleasing, functional and intuitive only to hear those dreaded words…
“It’s not working. We don’t like it.
These words made my heart sink every time. However, I can honestly say that every time I’ve found myself in this situation, the final signed-off design is always a vast improvement (both from mine and the clients perspective) on my original proposition.