Based in North Wales, Stuff and Nonsense is a small, but popular, web design studio, founded and led by designer and author Andy Clarke. We started back in 1998 and have built an enviable reputation for designing highly effective web sites, ecommerce stores and web applications for our clients.
We create web sites that are visually engaging, use technologies appropriately, have high levels of accessibility and that satisfy the needs of the people that use them. We focus on making simple, useable and attractive web sites using web standards technologies including XHTML and CSS; heck, we even wrote a book about it, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.
So why do our clients love us, and why do they keep coming back? We think it's because we are so passionate about our work. We love designing for the web. With every job we do, we try to learn something new about how to do things better.
Andy Clarke is hip and mature. You almost never get both. He is a seasoned brand steward, a fancy pixel wrangler, and no mean hand at code. A triple talent. The bastard.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog | Testimonials
It is because of this passion and our attention to the finest details, that we have attracted some big names to our small studio in North Wales. We also regularly promote creative, accessible, standards-based design in our writing, at conference, training and workshop events as well as in our everyday work.
The New Internationalist home page challenge
Most often when I’m designing a new site, I focus first on its content pages. Then, working from the inside-out, I finally arrive at the home page. This is the approach that I’ve taken in my work for New Internationalist. That said, a site’s home page is often what people want to see first, so who am I to disagree? Today I want to share and invite your feedback on my work on the NNew Internationalist home page. (Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web)
More | May 23rd 2009
Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS
How do you answer the Internet Explorer 6 question? When I asked myself why people visit my sites, and the ones that I make for other people, the answer was always “for the content”. Content that is almost always written words and that means type. Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web.
More | May 20th 2009
