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New Adventures 2012

Friday, January 27th, 2012

So the New Adventures in Web Design conference happened a week ago. Last year I wrote a little piece about my feelings of the conference. My words seemed to go down well and even received an official Mr Collison stamp of approval. That earned me a little place on the front page of the New [...]


Is search a dirty word?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Our main council site is pretty big. Several thousand standard pages, loads of dynamic apps, umpteen sections. Setting a navigation system for this sort of sprawling mass of data is something our team is constantly trying to improve. We try to keep the traditional navigation as lean as possible. It would be far too easy [...]


Permanency

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

I was travelling in the car to work this morning, giving my father-in-law a lift in the process. This isn’t unusual; it happens a couple of times a week. Normally the chat revolves around football, and the various trials and tribulations of being a blue (him) or red (me). If not football, work is generally [...]


All grown up

Monday, January 24th, 2011

I’ve been struggling to think of a succinct way of summing up how I feel about the New Adventures in Web Design conference (naconf). There was a huge amount to take in, and I’m struggling to convey my thoughts very well. I’ve already scrapped 500+ words. Overall I keep coming back to the same phrase [...]


Clear the Tumbleweed, Jump on the Twitter

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Things have been quiet round about these parts. I could go on about how busy things have been for us recently – they have! We seem to have been constantly on the go for the last couple of months – stag weekends, car buying, playing Rock Band etc, etc, etc… Of course these are excuses. [...]