The very first thing I do when designing a new site is to mood board, simply fire up Fireworks, Photoshop or whatever you use and throw ideas at it. They don’t have to adhere to any rules of design, it’s simply a visual way of digitally brainstorming your thoughts and initial concepts onto the screen. [...]
Read More...After another great day on the Victorian coast, Mick Fanning has reigned supreme this year, achieving one of surfing’s highest accolades – The ringing of the Bell! The contest was looking pretty lame early on in the day as the tide reaked havoc on the swells consistency. On an increasing push and with far too [...]
Read More...I have been learning WordPress for around a month now and recently came across the Twitter Bootstrap front-end code kit created by twitter designer Mark Otto and engineer fat. Having been a huge fan of using the awesome 960 Grid System with Drupal in the past. I fancied a change and Twitter Bootstrap seems to [...]
Read More...Anonymous have unleashed numerous attacks on many Chinese government sites over the last few days, resulting in numerous defacement’s and official password/contact detail leakage. Recently the @youranonnews twitter account confirmed the inclusion of a new Chinese extension of the anonymous hacktivist group with an anonymouschina twitter account being setup about a month ago. The last [...]
Read More...Without a doubt the heaviest session ever to be witnessed at Teahupoo. When Laird (Hamilton) pwnd Teahupoo a few years back I amongst many thought it would never get better than that… Lairds wave was a cracker no question but this sickness is off the scale… Teahupoo as you probably already know is a break [...]
Read More...What a fun few days it’s been for drivers in the UK, is your tank “topped up”? Maybe you have stock piles of fuel hidden away in your garage as recommended by the Conservative party earlier this week? Fuel sales have increased by some 400% due to the perceived threat of a strike that isn’t [...]
Read More...A new political group are looking to take Wirral away from the rest of the UK and declare the peninsula as an independent political state. Going under the name of ‘Wirral First’ their aim is to remove all political power from Whitehall and create a new Wirral in the form of a city-state. Similar in [...]
Read More...It’s that time of year again, when the trees throw out their blossom and the frigid ocean begins to warm. Thoughts invariably turn to Vee Dubs and the first migration down to Cornwall for a little taster of the finer things. This years no different, Run To The Sun is the first real VW based [...]
Read More...Ever filled in a webform only to have an issue with your browser or the website? Nothing makes users want to scream more than filling out forms only to have to fill them in again. How many conversions, users and prospects has your website lost due to bad form design. Sure, you can make them [...]
Read More...No not the Beastie Boys frontman! I am talking about Mike Developer, a buddy of mine who recently became qualified as a fully blown Front End Dev via CIW. Mike also has skills in PHP and other backend wizardry, He’s a cool, friendly guy and a bastion of interesting information about many things tech. Mike [...]
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