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What I Use Everyday as a Web Designer

What I Use Everyday as a Web Designer

Please Say hello in the comments below Good morning all, yes, it’s morning here, and I’ve decided to give you an insight into the world of website design, specifically what I use. Web Browser of Choice I used to be a hardcore ie6 user, I know I know, let the insults roll in now – [...]

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Fasthosts Sucks

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 [...]

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Discussion: Web Design & Wireframing

Ok this isn’t an article its a discussion! So PLEASE Comment below…. Do You Wireframe? If No – Why Not? Wuup Wireframe every project. Do You Use a Program or Pen/Paper? We use a combination of paper and our own adobe air application, starting to lean towards the app more. Would You Consider Using a [...]

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Usability testing Steve Krug style

Doing this made me realise that to be Usable this site needed to change drastically!

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Designing in the browser

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 [...]

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Re-designing your own website

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– I work for a company called Marcom, and we made a decision back in January to rebuild our website as the old one was outdated, didn’t sell us and didn’t demonstrate what we were capable of.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 [...]

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Book review { Speaking in styles } by Jason Cranford Teague

Just recently I was fortunate enough to win a copy of Jason’s book in a small competition he ran on Twitter. Simple enough, post a tweet with the link to his site and advert for the book and the #SIS tag;

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Wireframing & Modules For Website Design

I asked Bill what I should write about and he said “start Mac… random insult here” – which was firstly a rather disjointed sentence and secondly I didn’t feel it was a viable topic for an article. But instead I have decided to talk about ‘Wireframing’ & ‘Modules’, a recently adopted technique we picked up [...]

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10 Top Web Based Resources for Web Designers

These top 10 sort of posts are not something I make a habit of doing, mainly as they are done to death, but this time its different because these are genuinely all awesome resources which I have sourced elsewhere and use in my link stack on Mac. So to save any more babble, here is [...]

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New to Mac? How I Work More Productively

So I’ve had my Mac for near on a month now I think. Either that or time has passed particularly fast. Never the less I have gotten firmly to grips with the Mac, and working with it productively for Web Design & Development, so here are a few tips if you too are new to [...]

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