Posts by Dan

A Quick Look at HTML5

Posted by Dan on Oct 5, 2009 in Website Design | 1 comment

There’s a lot of buzz about HTML5 at the moment and the spec is changing everyday! Let’s take a quick look at it by marking up a blog! Firstly, credit where credit is due – this post is based on Bruce Lawson’s talk at Future of Web Design Bristol. Jumping right in <!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>FOWD</title> <style> body...

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Fasthosts Sucks

Posted by Dan on Aug 29, 2009 in Website Design | 12 comments

Most of my client sites run on Fasthosts servers (not by my choice) and let me just say – their email servers are the most awful things known to man – they make the Tasmanian Devil look stable. Case in point – earlier this week they went down at about lunch time on Tuesday (25th August) – I know this as I was working a half day and as I went to go out I got a call letting...

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I’m starting to feel sorry for Microsoft (and kind of slightly not like Apple)

Posted by Dan on Aug 21, 2009 in Misc, News, Software | 17 comments

I’m starting to feel sorry for Microsoft (and kind of slightly not like Apple)

On last week’s Wednesday a Canadian firm successfully sued Microsoft for around £175 million for infringing on a patent and as a result of this Microsoft has been banned from selling Microsoft Word. The reason for this ban and successful court case is because the latest version of Word uses XML as a file format. This is complete and utter lunacy and I suspect due to a large prejudice...

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Designing in the browser

Posted by Dan on Aug 7, 2009 in Website Design | 4 comments

Recently, I’ve been trying out a method of designing websites that I mentioned in my previous entry, which Andy Clarke wrote about in a post entitled Walls Come Tumbling Down. I thought I’d discuss some of the pros and cons to designing with this method that I’ve found. In basis, the idea is to design the initial pages in Photoshop, and then build it making changes in the browser...

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Re-designing your own website

Posted by Dan on Jul 30, 2009 in Website Design | 0 comments

OK, first a bit of background information – I work for a company called Marcom, and we made a decision back in January to rebuild our website as the old one was outdated, didn’t sell us and didn’t demonstrate what we were capable of. As you’re well aware, it’s now nearly August and the site is the same now as it was in January; but we have been making progress! The most...

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