January 2010
3 posts
Web Design Inside-Out
Whenever I start a new web project my first instinct is to start with the home page design. It’s fine to design that way for a brochure site, but when confronted with a dynamic website that will host a great deal of content, or a web application, I find that what works best is to design from the inside out.
The web is non-linear by nature; a designer is able to nudge the user towards...
Amazon.co.uk recommends
In an ultimately futile search to find a PAL version of Rock Band here in Jeddah, I caved and decided to purchase it online. I went to Amazon UK for the first time in about six years.
When I logged in I was amused by what Amazon thinks I still need. Amazon Recommends for you: IGCSE Biology. I literally LOL’d as I remembered how about six years ago I ordered my IGCSE books online, and...
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Look, Ma! No Save!
A couple of months ago I started using iMovie ‘08 at work. I use it to do very light video editing, superimposing text, etc. The first time it crashed I panicked. I thought to myself: OMG I didn’t save! When I relaunched it I saw that all my work was there, but I still fumbled through the menus trying to find a “Save” function and couldn’t. 2 Seconds of googling...