Category Archives: Web Design

Firefox 2 and IE7 – Not Quite a Browser War

By Bish | Published: 31/10/2006 – 20:47 | Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web Design, Windows | Comments (1)

It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.

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Crazy Egg Finally Goes Live!

By Bish | Published: 21/08/2006 – 23:31 | Posted in Design, News, Opinion, Software, Technology, Web Design, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

CrazyEgg LogoCrazy Egg has finally opened its doors to the public after what feels like a long closed beta session. I had the good fortune to unofficially test the product probably 3 or 4 months back now and was impressed by service as a whole though, at the time, performance was less than real time. For those that don’t know, Crazy Egg offers some great usability testing of your site, allowing you to see how people react to different layouts and styles for example. By monitoring people’s interactions with your site, it logs statistics on hotspots that can be displayed on great looking heat maps helping you to analise the usage of your site. Previously this sort of testing and monitoring would consume large resources or be sourced out to independent usablilty specialists but now can be implemented very quickly and easily by dropping in some JavaScript into your (x)html.

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@media 15th-16th June

By Bish | Published: 14/06/2006 – 22:58 | Posted in Design, News, Quick, Web Design | Comments (0)

“It’s the event of the year for anyone interested in learning about and discussing the latest approaches to web design with some of the world’s most highly respected experts.”

With sessions on IE7, bug hunting, microformats, the future of web apps and much more this years @media looks amazing. To be held in London tomorrow and Friday (15th-16th June), the line up is awesome with the whose who of web design including Andy Budd, Dave Shea, Veerle Pieters, John Hicks with far too many more to mention.
Gutted I can’t go (its sold out now) but hopefully they will make the some of the sessions into podcasts for download afterwards. Pretty please?

SXSW 2006 Podcasts

By Bish | Published: 15/05/2006 – 21:18 | Posted in News, Quick, Web Design, Web2.0 | Comments (0)

The two shows that really get my attention every year are E3 and South by Southwest (SXSW). SXSW brings together the most creative minds of the web for panels, keynotes and speeches – good excuse for a bit of a party too. For those who didn’t make it, including myself, they have released the podcasts for this year’s event on their website.

Rebooted!

By Bish | Published: 28/04/2006 – 12:09 | Posted in Design, Personal, Web, Web Design, Wordpress | Comments (2)

A few days early but I have decided to reboot! Pain, sweat and tears but finally I am happy enough to go live with this theme for Wordpress. Welcome to ‘Satin’.

I have finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.2 from 1.5 which was painless and I am making use of some quality plugins available such as Brians Latest Comments, FlickrRSS and The Feature. Credit to the authors and a thank you for the hard work that went into making those available.

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