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A web designers guide to running a seminar …
Earlier this year I ran some marketing training for Derry City Council. The reasons for doing so were threefold: Diversify my income. So much of my work is client based. For the most part this is great – I love the nuts and bolts of coding a website and I enjoy the day to day...
Work Life Balance – a TED talk
One of my facebook people linked to this wonderful 10 minute talk by Nigel Marsh on that ever popular topic – the Work Life Balance … it’s well worth 10 minutes of anyone’s time – check it out:
The buying mindset … creating opportunities to connect
I was listening to a podcast from the excellent Freelance Jam the other day – it was an interview with Sarah J Bray. In what was pretty much a throwaway comment from Sarah she delivered a terrific insight that, in eight years of freelancing, had never been put to me so succinctly. I’m paraphrasing from...
Google feature Angela’s Bella Flora in their ‘Get Your Business Online’ series …
I’ve been meaning to post this for ages – but y’know … stuff kept happening. I wrote a little while ago about the launch of the Angela’s Bella Flora website and at the time, they were being featured by Google in their ‘Get Minnesota Businesses Online‘ programme. I don’t know too much about the programme...
An evolving work practice – HTML5, Modular CSS, using the LESS app
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I build websites – the process and the code base I use for each projects – both of which have recently undergone the sort of evolutionary leap more commonly found in X-men movies. It started with a need to familiarise myself with HTML5 at the beginning of...
Mobile web design considerations
Have just written a lengthy page on mobile web design considerations … I’ve got it as a page, rather than as a regular post because it will eventually feature more prominently on the site … but for now, that’s where it is. I’m gearing up for some changes here at TickTock – 2012 is going to...
Apple Store in Grand Central
For 3 extremely memorable years, I was lucky enough to walk through Grand Central Station, NYC twice a day, almost every day. To say it’s an inspiring building would be damning it with faint praise as well as stating the bleeding obvious. It’s one of my favourite buildings and so much of it is so...
Nerdy Christmas Cards!
Ha! Found these great Christmas cards for the web-devs in your life … fun stuff: (via)
Email Marketing – cheap, effective, super simple
Recently, I’ve had a few new clients sign up for my email marketing service – as well as working with some old favourites. It’s a great thing for both me & the client – for me it’s a simple way to generate a little passive income and for my clients, it’s a great way to...
Sorry, we’re sleeping right now
So, I was in the support section of a web app earlier today, sending a brief email question. Web apps need to be available 24/7 and many need to be supported similarly. It is often disappointing to see the ‘we’re not in right now, but send the message anyway …’ message. Over on the right...
Let the designer design …
So, a lot has been written about Steve Jobs this past week or so, (and for what it’s worth, this Stephen Fry piece is my favourite), but the quote below is one that is resonating particularly strongly with me at the moment. You can’t just ask the customers what they want and then try to...
Front end coding for a responsive web
So then, the time has come to start a client project from scratch using purely responsive techniques (as defined by Ethan Marcotte’s book Responsive Web Design). I’ve retro-fitted some responsive techniques to previous client sites, but this will be the first ‘responsive’ project I’m starting from scratch. The three core ‘ingredients’ for this responsive website...