Another month, another WP update. Really not worth the effort this time, it’s took me about 4 months to slowly transition all my sites through 2.0 - 2.3 - 2.5 - 2.51… which, with the added visual and structural upgrades added with the help of Jeffrey Zeldman and co; I’m perfectly happy with.
What I’m not [...]

My post on the Flame blog from last Thursday about keeping in mind the small details when building sites.
The Little Things That Matter
So don’t forget to dot those i’s and cross those t’s, and remember to tidy up all self-closing tags!

7 days and counting. Next Monday, the 21st July, is launch day for the nathan beck and redswish websites. All next week I will be featuring a bulk of tutorials, topical articles and interviews to get the new design site on it’s feet. Now I’m working at Flame I’ll be looking to spend more spare [...]

I’ve never known an office get so excited over… a phone!
It is of course July 11th - iPhone 2nd Generation launch day. This being Manchester, England - it’s miserable and wet and there are no iPhone parties or crowds of hungry gadget lovers camping and clamoring outside the Apple Store. However, there is a buzz [...]

I’m not one to make extravagant statements like the above… am I? Look, I’ve given the Xbox 360 a chance. In February I had to make a tough decision between getting a PS3 or Xbox, the Wii didn’t even enter my mind. I say it was a tough decision, I was actually at a GAME [...]

As of Friday the 4th July, involving an excited dash to the Apple Store after work; I am now the proud owner of a super-duper 24″ iMac!
And how much better life seems now I have this glossy, huge display before my eyes. There are no poor people, no war or famine, no natural disasters, no [...]

Why’s everyone being so hard on Google today? Obviously Google news features in my online life virtually every day but very rarely in the local paper on the train to work - three times!
From my point of view, Google makes the world a better place by pushing the boundaries and providing excellent services to everyone, [...]

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’m a rather mathematical web designer. I like my layouts to be pixel-perfect and hence not a big fan of variable-width layouts.
However, whereas I’d love to think that building my sites so everything slots in perfectly would make the task easier - it more often-than-not leads to more struggle, [...]