Development

  1. My broken process

    One of the highlights for me at this year’s New Adventures conference was Jason Santa Maria. His talk ‘The Nimble Process’, struck a chord with me because I have struggled to come to terms with my own changing process.

  2. You should (sometimes) work for free

    Web design and development services are expensive and out of reach for small charities and non-profit organisations, pro-bono work is a great way to use your skills for a good cause.

  3. Responsive videos – problem solved

    Chris Coyier and Paravel have joined forces and written jQuery plugin called FitVids to solve the biggest challenge with responsive design: embedded videos.

  4. How to target CSS at specific browsers

    Rogie King just posted this fantastic code snippet to help target CSS at specific browsers, even specific versions of browsers. Certainly a new tool for the kit of any web designer. Check it out.

  5. WordPress: Get all posts excluding certain tags

    This is something I do in almost every WordPress theme I create, yet whenever I come to do it I can never remember how. I’m hoping that writing it down will help me remember.
    To get all posts, except those with certain tags, you have to use the function ‘tag__not_in()’.

  6. Trying something new: our wedding website

    Much to Donna’s surprise, I’ve finished and launched our wedding website. Recently I’ve been collecting things I really want to try out but I’ve been waiting for the right project to come along. Seeing as a website for our wedding is about as personal as projects get, now is the time to buckle down and have some fun.

  7. Fix your RSS

    Dear website owners, if you don’t put all of your content in your RSS feeds, I’m not seeing it. Since I found the RSS reader for me, my use of RSS has ballooned, and I rarely visit your website any more.

  8. Do It Yourself Birmingham

    Birmingham City Council recently launched their redesigned and redeveloped website. Costing £2.8 million and taking over five years, to say it is controversial is an understatement, especially when it became very clear that the price and timescale is not reflected in the quality.

  9. Why I Love Research

    Research is about determining best practice, finding out if something is possible, or seeing how others have solved the same problems. Research is a process, it takes a lot of time and should be recognised as legitimate phase in a project, just like design, development and testing.

  10. Okay, you may look now

    From the initial sketch to the (almost) finished article in a month. You are looking at version 1 of my site. This is the first time I have built a site for myself and it’s the first time I’ve built something this large on Wordpress.