2007 May Archive

New Labour website launches

Just a day after the Prime Minister announces he’s to step down in June, triggering a leadership contest, the Labour party launches their redesigned website.

Read the full article


The Guardian gets a modern makeover

I’m very impressed by the redesign of The Guardian; they’ve managed to pull off the complicated feat of having a lot of information and not losing that information in a morass of boxes and links.

The design, based on a six-column grid, actually reminds me quite a lot of The Onion, although I think it’s even less busy. This article talks about the design process for The Onion; I think it’s had a slight design refresh since this was written, but it’s still an interesting read.

Read the full article


Andy Budd on the future of CSS

I conducted a Q&A about the future of CSS with speaker/author/developer/etc Andy Budd, which you can read on CSS3.info now.


IE8: Microsoft should carry the legacy burden

Remember the bad old days of “This site is best viewed with Browser X at Resolution Y”, before the concerted push towards web standards? Looks like they could be on their way back.

IE group program manager, Chris Wilson, has said that a “compatible with IE 8.0” scheme may be necessary in order for their next browser to both support web standards and be backwards-compatible.

Now, I kind of understand their problem; they don’t want to have a whole load of websites appear broken when users upgrade to a new browser. But they’ve got their view of responsibility around the wrong way: site authors should have to opt out of standards in order to support IE, not opt in.

Read the full article


A MooTools Effects quickstart guide

Update: This is an old post and the information contained in it may be out of date. I don’t use MooTools much any more, so please don’t expect that any of this information is still relevant.

MooTools is a neat little JavaScript framework which grew out of the Moo.fx library. It’s a quick and easy way to add dynamism to your site, from AJAX to animation (that doesn’t seem much alphabetically, I know).

Despite having extensive documentation, however, I felt it was lacking a ‘quickstart’ tutorial – so I decided to write one. This one, in fact. Let me just apologise in advance for any confusion that may arise from this tutorial; I’m not used to writing them, and my JavaScript is a little rusty so I may get some terminology wrong. Don’t hesitate to correct me if you spot any errors.

Read the full article


Newer

Aside

I’ve updated my Speaking page to include more conferences, more videos, and a little on my speaking requirements and preferences. I’m planning to cut down on the number of talks I give in 2014 (twelve is too many), but am always open to interesting offers and opportunities, so please get in touch if you’re organising an event.

[#] 1 Comment . More Asides.