Yesterday, Web Design Tuts+ (@wdtuts) published a somewhat lengthly article I wrote about designing websites for Google Glass. I cover quite a bit, from device usage, to UX, to Mobile First and RWD. From the article: …we as web developers should be mindful of how we develop our websites. As it turns out, the principles I’m going to discuss aren’t…
Over the last year or so I’ve been involved with a few major projects that required responsive design/development. One of the most important things to remember about a responsive design is that it’s not just good enough to make sure your design shrinks with a smaller browser on your computer. Presumably, you’re doing this because people will be accessing your…
I just started listening to podcasts regularly so I figured I’d share some of them, as well as your normal cool links. Stuff You Should Know: A podcast from How Stuff Works about general knowledge stuff that covers a wide range of topics from Bitcoin to Torture. Very interesting stuff! Stuff You Missed in History Class: Another podcast from How…
I have a ton of bookmark folders to help keep myself organized, though to be honest I usually bookmark something and then forget about it. So, while looking through some of my folders, I can across a good amount of web development resources I’ve been keeping. I’ve decided to share them.
Here you go! My slides from my talk, “Using PHP to Create a Web-ÂBased Mobile Banner Application” from @PA_BUG are available for download (links to my Public Dropbox folder). There is also a link to our current mobile app. Â Thanks to everyone who came out, and to PABUG for having me! Slides (pdf) Slides (ppt) Mobile Web App If you…
Over the weekend, I attended Web Design Day in Pittsburgh, PA. There were a lot of great speakers, I met a lot of great people, and it was an all-around fun event! Here are some of my notes from the talks.
Awesome Update: You can now watch his talk and download the slides over at his blog. AT WordCamp San Francisco on Saturday, Matt Mullenweg gave his annual State of the Word talk, where he talked about some notable WordPress news, as well as what we can expect in the future. Here are my notes from the live stream.
So this Responsive Web thing is all the rage these days, and rightfully so. As mobile browsers get more powerful, we can do a lot of great things that used to be thought of as only possible on  the desktop. We no longer need to have redirects on mobile that take our users to a separate site; we can have…
Last week I was afforded the opportunity to go to An Event Apart Boston, a conference I’ve wanted to attend for a few years now. I attribute most of what I know to the fine folks that run with that group, including Zeldman, Dan Cerderholm, Ethan Marcotte, and Luke Wroblewski, all of whom would be speaking. Now that the dust…
In Parts 1 and 2, I talked about the two most important parts of the site- the homepage and portfolio. Today I want to talk about a more subtle, but still important, part of the site- the sidebar.
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