December 19, 2011

Responsive Web Design Techniques

Filed under: Resources,Responsive Web Design - 19 Dec 2011

In the always awesome 24ways.org (the advent calendar for web geeks) there have been three excellent articles on specific Responsive Web Design techniques so far this month.

The first is by Jeremy Keith and …

November 23, 2011

Adobe Flash to the world:
“I’m not dead yet!”

Filed under: Articles,Flash,Flex,Web development - 23 Nov 2011

Adobe Flash - "I'm not dead yet!"Flash isn’t dead. Adobe is continuing development of the Flash Player as well as Flex for desktop web browsers. Adobe’s recent announcement about abandoning development for …

July 26, 2011

Dealing with Disappointment

Filed under: Business of Webdesign - 26 Jul 2011

Dealing with DisappointmentLast week we lost a website development job less than an hour before the kickoff meeting with what would have been our latest new client.

#&*@

I hate losing …

April 1, 2011

3 pranks from Google

Filed under: Uncategorized - 01 Apr 2011

I love Google’s pranks on April Fools day. Here are three I’m aware of (so far):

OMG this is *awesome*. Couldn’t stop laughing: http://gmail.com/motion Ok, Google is topping themselves. Here’s a job listing for “autocompleters”! …

January 1, 2011

Responsive Images – solving the image overhead problem

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 01 Jan 2011

When implementing responsive web design techniques, one issue raised by detractors is that the largest image needed for any layout gets downloaded automatically resulting in potentially large bandwidth overhead – an undesirable side effect especially for mobile devices that …

December 31, 2010

The Year in Pictures – USA Today 2010

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 31 Dec 2010

http://projects.usatoday.com/gallery/news/2010-news/

“A really nice example of responsive web design from an unexpected source.” – via http://adactio.com/links/tags/responsive

A photo gallery website using responsive web design techniques.

November 15, 2010

Just say “no” to speculative design

Does your web design company do speculative design work?
We don’t.

What I’m talking about is creating potential website layouts to show a prospect how their new website might look during the sales process. It’s not uncommon in our experience …

August 6, 2010

Responsive Design – the future of web design

We’ve entered a new period of transition on the web, just after things seemed to be getting comfortable. I mean things were nice. We reached a least-common-denominator screen size of 1024px. (Good riddance 800 x 600!) All the modern browsers …

July 3, 2010

Attending Wordcamp Boulder 2010?

I’m having a hard time picking which seminars to attend at Wordcamp in Boulder, Colorado next weekend. There are a ton of great WordPress presentations on the schedule.

Wordcamp is a one-day conference for WordPress developers, …

December 4, 2009

24Ways: HTML5 heads toward desktop apps

Filed under: Flash,Flex,Resources,Web development,Web standards - 04 Dec 2009

Breaking Out the Edges of the Browser” by Remy Sharp reveals the future: HTML5 has features that enable web developers to write applications that work both online and offline. One commenter stated that “When this really starts to grow …

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