Stuff and Nonsense: And All That Malarkey

The New Internationalist home page challenge

2009-05-23T00:13:00+00:00

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)

Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS

2009-05-20T22:31:00+00:00

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.

Announcing my new I Can Make You A CSS Zen Master DVD

2009-04-01T21:51:00+00:00

If you follow me on Twitter, you might know that I've spent the last couple of weeks in San Francisco, recording several DVD titles for New Riders. Most will be available in around three months, but I'm pleased to announce that one, I Can Make You A CSS Zen Master, is available today. Watch the trailer on For A Beautiful Web to find out more.

Visual Web Design Master-classes in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney - May 2009

2009-03-14T13:40:00+00:00

In just a few short weeks, in the middle of May, I’ll be squeezing myself into an airline seat and flying the 9500 miles from home to Australia. This will be the third time that I’ve made the trip in four years, the last two times to speak in Sydney at Web Directions.

tweetCC is Wired

2009-02-20T22:55:00+00:00

I'm sorry for posting twice on the same day about tweetCC, but it's not everyday that something that I have worked on and feel super passionate about is picked up by, and hits the homepage of Wired. (More at For A Beautiful Web)

Designing tweetCC

2009-02-20T14:28:00+00:00

This week Brian Suda and I launched tweetCC, a Twitter micro-app that allows Twitter users to declare a Creative Commons license for their tweeted content. I'll be writing more about why we decided to make tweetCC and why licensing you tweets is important in a future entry, but as several people have commented on my design and CSS implementation, first a few words about them. (Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web.

Do UK government web sites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

2009-01-20T10:27:00+00:00

No, they don't. As Jeremy Keith so kindly pointed out, it's a subject that I have been banging on about for quite a while now. Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web

Designing around hAccessibility

2009-01-20T10:23:00+00:00

At the moment I'm writing a script for a DVD tutorial on microformats that I will be recording for New Riders at the end of February. While designing some shiny new examples for the hCalendar event microformat, I've been revisiting the problems and discussions of accessibility that surround the date design pattern and thinking about possible design solutions. Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web

Ten

2008-12-23T00:01:01+00:00

Stuff and Nonsense is ten years old today as we registered as a company today, ten years ago, on the 23rd December 1998. It's actually a little hard to believe that I have been so lucky. Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web.

(How to be a) Contract Killer

2008-12-22T23:10:00+00:00

24ways goes from strength to strength each year and I was so pleased when Drew McLellan asked me back to contribute again. (How to be a) Contract Killer is deals with the importance of contracts and how you can use them as as an opportunity to be creative. Comments are off here but open at 24ways