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Simplicity in Design (1)
Posted: 31st Mar 2009
We're starting a series on Simplicity in Design. We thought we'd start off with a couple of sites that we really like which have very simple designs.
What do you think it is about these sites that makes them so simple? Is it the colour palette? Is it the Information Architecture? Why is simplicity in design so important?
Comic Sans to be Used for 2012 Olympics
Posted: 1st Apr 2009
The official type-face for the London 2012 Olympics has been announced - it is to be Comic Sans.
For more on this please see this article on creative review.
Campaign Monitor
Posted: 2nd Apr 2009
We have been working on some HTML emails and we just thought we'd quickly share a tool that we've been using to test them. It's called Campaign Monitor and is a simple and free tool that allows you to upload a zip of images and the HTML and then send a test to up to 5 different accounts (e.g. Hotmail, Outlook etc). Check it out.
Jquery Dropdown Menu
Posted: 3rd Apr 2009
We have just revised the drop down menu on our CMS. We wanted something that had a really small filesize, was really simple, fast, worked in all browsers and used Jquery. Previously we had been using something that was quite slow and were finding glitches with it in IE6. Now we have found something REALLY simple and it justs uses Jquery to add and remove classes. The CSS is simpler too!
Web Developer's Cup of Tea
Posted: 6th Apr 2009
We all get those days when we really just don't feel like doing any work. There might be a lot to do but for some reason we just can't really be bothered - the motivation is low and the lethargy is high. How do we snap out of it and do some work?
A cup of tea and a good tune. It's worked for me. Tea makes all the difference, and while sipping on a nice cup of hot brew you can put on your favourite Johnny Cash album (maybe not for some) and crack on with that difficult Jquery AJAX sign up form with field auto-complete and CSS3 rounded corners. It works!
Jquery Zoom Effect
Posted: 6th Apr 2009
We just found an amazing Jquery zoom plugin which we've used on a clothes shop website. It is very cool check it out!
Twittered!
Posted: 7th Apr 2009
Well,
I've finally joined Twitter, and my Twitter profile is here. Please follow me! :-)
Jquery Form Validation - Checking Fields
Posted: 8th Apr 2009
TECHY WARNING: Warning this post has 'techy-talk' be warned.
We thought we would share a cool way of checking form fields in Jquery. Just set the submitButton and the requiredFields variables and you are on your way. It is really useful for for validating a form before sending the data to the server (and you should always check before AND after sending the form don't forget!). This could be made in to an even neater, packed function if I had time, maybe later.
Have a play...
Testing Websites in Different Browsers
Posted: 9th Apr 2009
What is the best way to test your website on lots of browsers?
It's very important to make sure the websites you build work across platforms and browsers, but it's not easy to do this unless you have a room full of computers. I use a Mac and I would never buy a PC just for testing stuff (I'd never buy a PC full stop). So what if I need to test in Internet Explorer 8, or Conquerer in Linux for example?
Well we use a variety of tests to make sure our sites are always working nicely in lots of browsers across different platforms - then we can guarantee our work is fully tested. Most of the time we use Virtual Box which is amazing and free, but also for a few bucks you can get a day pass with Litmus which is great for getting screenshots on practically every browser. Any other ways you can think of? We'd like to know.
Working With WordPress Themes
Posted: 14th Apr 2009
We just finished working on a blog for a Shoe company. We used Wordpress for the Blog engine and we have to say overall it's pretty cool. Installing templates or 'themes' isn't too bad but you have to know PHP and learn the naming conventions of all the Wordpress components - in other words you have to read their documentation (boring!!!).
But yeah the blog looks great, and the implementation was relatively easy... but not as easy as Halogy of course.
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