10 Jan
Before Christmas, I was honoured to be asked to write an article for a new website called 12 Devs of Xmas – a festive magazine for motivating the Web community to learn something new every day.
I decided to take a different angle and focus on the many faces of a typical Web professional, highlighting the broad range of skills required when working as a freelancer.
30 Nov
Google are rolling out an update to their generic navigation bar between their popular products, breaking them out of the current dark bar and moving them to a super navigation dropdown from the logo.
It does seem like a natural location for the navigation although I often use the logo as a home target (as has come convention across the Web).
It’s also welcoming to see a consistent header height across products rather than the current adaptive header height.
All this lends towards a consistent user experience across Google products.
(via @miekd)
17 Nov
Nathan Ford suggests a possible solution to the responsive advert problem Mark Boulton highlighted earlier in the week; introduce a screen resolution range variable to the typical mental model, which now becomes:
range > template > slot > ad
In theory, this approach would allow advertisers and publishers to work seamlessly yet also allow web designers to introduce RWD to large scale projects.
15 Nov
Mark Boulton identifies a fundamental flaw in adopting responsive web design within an editorial context, specifically when it comes to advertisement placement.
14 Nov
I’ve been keeping a close eye on US banking startup Simple, specifically as I’m interested in their revolutionary new approach to a stale business model.
