Mark Boulton’s Five Simple Steps: A practical guide to designing for the web has to be my favourite web design book of the year. One of the many things I really love about it is the personalised anecdotal style applied throughout. It’s the kind of book that will age gracefully as it doesn’t dwell too [...]

The edweb09 workshop was held over two days, 14-15th May 2009 and was facilitated by Headscape, a web development company based in Hampshire, UK. The workshop was aimed at those web managers working in the UK higher education sector and covered four distinct topics: usability, accessibility, content management systems and writing for the web. I was lucky [...]

Professional photographers get pretty annoyed when their photos appear on third-party sites without their permission despite this being the default behaviour of the Flickr API.

Dan Wellman’s book jQuery UI 1.6 (ISBN 978-1-847195-12-8) from Packt Publishing is the kind of book I wish I had when I first started tinkering with jQuery.
Firstly, I’m a web designer, not a developer. Scripting scares me. I’m really out of my comfort zone when I need to bring a web page to life with [...]

A lot of web designers, myself included, are mostly concerned with the way things look when people visit the web sites we create. We’re all about the design — layout, typography, colour, graphics and how they enhance the user experience. We start with some sketches, do some wire-frames and rapidly move into software like Photoshop [...]

Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Mobile phone users struggle mightily to use websites, even on high-end devices. To solve the problems, websites should provide special mobile versions.
(tags: webdesign mobileweb)

Clean CSS
A Resource for Web Designers – Optmize and Format your CSS. Very useful for people like me who start messy and wanna clean up later.
(tags: webdesign css tools)

How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive
Really need to do this cos there's just no room left on my existing drive.
(tags: apple tutorials macbook hardware upgrade)

Getting Things Done with Twitter
Useful productivity enhancing services that use Twitter.
(tags: twitter productivity business gtd)

Clickjacking Twitter – James Padolsey
How the recent malicious "Don't click" link on Twitter works.
(tags: webdesign javascript css virus clickjacking iframe)

Simple scalable CSS based breadcrumbs
Nice tutorial on creating breadcrumb navigation using some basic HTML and CSS.
(tags: webdesign css navigation breadcrumbs)

Recreating the button | stopdesign
How Doug Bowman created the new GMail/GReader buttons. Nicely done. And nice new stopdesign.com redesign to boot.
(tags: webdesign css forms interface)

CommentPress
CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.
(tags: webdesign productivity development wordpress plugins)