This is a humble web design journal where i try and share any of the useful scraps of information i have found on the net, click here to return to the journal home.
I’ve just added a new item to the portfolio section (the fifth item along in the slider), it was completed for Complinet during a stage where we were given free rein to create a provocative campaign. The icons themselves were created in Adobe Illustrator, but obviously the main work was done in flash. […]
A very quick vector illustration of a random Toshiba laptop, very random, but done in Adobe Photoshop of course.
For a closer look just click on the dodgy thumbnail to the right (It’s a shame that you can’t select an area of the image for the thumbnail in wordpress, but it’s still pretty impressive!)
I’ve recently been looking at an open source replacement for Dreamweaver and stumbled across an IDE called Aptana which focuses on front end development. Heres the introductory blurb from the Aptana site:
The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, […]
I’ve finally found the time to add some substance to the portfolio section, it’s certainly not the finished article, but it’s a lot better than what it was (an empty page ). In the update I’ve added a very small sample of some of the work i have done at Complinet (more coming […]
Tomorrow I’ll be attending an all day event worryingly entitled “Persona workshop”, at first when I received the invite I was of course slightly worried that someone had taken offence to my personality Closer inspection of the agenda revealed:
Personas are fictitious, specific, concrete representations of target users. Personas put a face on the […]
Incredibly interestingly the newly updated (and very nice I might add) W3C markup validation service has opted to use the mootools javascript framework for it’s fancy effects. Personally I find this incredibly insightful that the consortium has disregarded the competition (JQuery, Prototype etc) and go with mootools. In a strange coincidence mootools is […]
I’m currently working very hard in my spare time to get the whole site fully up and operational (am i sounding like a star trek engineer?), and i’m disgusted with myself that you have to see it half finished. Absolutely disgusted. But i’ll get over it. In the mean time you can […]
I came accross an excellent method for returning to the root of your folders with php, which is really useful when you are including the same file in many places. Below is a code snippet of an implementation:
<?php include ($_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’]."/includes/file.php"); ?>
MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API…
HTML tags were originally designed to define the content of a document. They were supposed to say “This is a header”, “This is a paragraph”, “This is a table”, by using tags like <h1>, <p>, <table>, and so on. The layout of the document was supposed to be taken care of by the browser, without […]