I was working on a site there the other night. I had a bunch of text being added to a sidebar, which was cramming in on top of itself. So I added the following line to my CSS (the bulk of the id’s and classes are left out for clarity): section p {margin-bottom: 1.5em} Lovely,…
As web developers and designers, most of us work within the strict confines of a process. Whether this process involves user testing or not (and if it doesn’t… why!?!?!), our usual parameters of work revolve around the client and their expectations of us. While this is all very well and good and delivers a product…
I would consider myself notable in my absence, given I haven’t written a blog post of any description in quite a period of time. I’ll explain here why. About a year ago, my wife and I made the decision to leave Ireland permanently. Our decision was based primarily on being closer to her family (that is…
For those of you unaware, Refresh is a (spreading) global initiative to bring design and development individuals of like minds together to speak and share their collective knowledge. Dublin is no exception with Refreshing Cities Dublin taking place in the Science Gallery once a month. As part of this initiative I have been invited to speak on…
So I bought Andy Clarke’s “Hardboiled Web Design” lately and have been devouring and savouring it over the past week or so. I’ve only a chapter or two left, so once I’m done I’ll write a full review. So far, it is without doubt THE (pronounced ‘thee’) web design book du jour and a must…
So it’s general election time again. It’s been quite wearisome to see the country go through the ringer that it has had to over the past few years. I’ll admit, I bought into the whole Teflon Taoiseach era and was quite supportive of the regime when everything was on the up. But I couldn’t afford…
I began working on a project lately where I was given a design but the colour scheme had to be decided upon because it needed to go through a branding process. Part of this required me to use some “creative” methods of getting around a few problems. For instance, there will be gallery pages with…
I posted on Twitter a smattering of books I had recently acquired, along with some old ones which resulted in the question, when did my library get so sensible?
So, I couldn’t get Twitter Tools to work properly. It was constantly giving me “No tweets available at the moment.” After a lot of head banging and not really much information coming from the interwebs, I started to look at the backend of my installation.
I’m not sure how many boys started in my junior infants class of Knockea National Primary School in 1980, but I can say that five finished 6th class, with eight girls. Knockea was a mixed Catholic school in Co. Limerick, within the Cahernorry parish. My family discovered late in the day that our house was…
