- Redesigning WebDesignire - a showcase of Irish web design - May 2011I just relaunched WebDesignire. WebDesignire is a website showcasing “beautiful web design from Ireland and Northern Ireland”. It’s a side project that I initially launched in 2009 but due to...
- NI Election 2011: Viewing the party websites on an iPhone - May 2011This Thursday 5th May 2011 we have a local election here in Northern Ireland. I wouldn’t be that up to speed on local politics. I’ve a fair idea of what...
- How HTML5 element names were decided - Apr 2011I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Chris Mills, creator of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, which was organised by those Standardistas fellas and Build. Chris was talking...
- Experimenting with responsive web design - Apr 2011More and more businesses, web apps and designers are offering up multiple versions of their websites depending on the device and resolution the user is using. Last week I did...
- Are you an HTML5 web designer? - Mar 2011HTML5 is quite the buzzword at the minute. A lot of designers and front-end developers will now say “I use HTML5 and CSS3” rather than just good olde “HTML and...
- SXSW 2011 Review - Mar 2011I had the pleasure of spending March 11th-15th in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, (possibly/probably) the world’s largest gathering of geeks, techies, designers, developers, startups, CEOs, investors and “social media...
- Omnigraffle first impressions - Mar 2011Omnigraffle is a Mac application that I’ve heard other designers mention but have never tried myself. Recently I decided to take the plunge and see what all the fuss was...
- I'm heading to SXSW 2011 - Mar 2011March 11th-15th I’ll be hitting this year’s SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Thanks to the support from Invest NI and Digital Circle, I’ll be heading out with a team...
- How to get your website's rich snippets displayed on Google search results - Feb 2011Two years ago when we launched Lookaly, a local review website for Northern Ireland, we included microformats that would tell the “Google bots” some useful information about the reviews we...
- How to deploy your Rails app with Capistrano (to Dreamhost) - Jan 2011I’ve been doing a bit of Rails development recently. I’ve actually been doing what I would call ‘basic’ Rails development for a couple of years now on and off. However,...