Design: Web 1.5
June 16, 2010
The brief for Big Red Tin and its redesigned sister site, Soupgiant, included the note “We haven’t got an exact style in mind, but something relaxed and modern without going over the top – Web 1.5 if you like“
Behind the Websites: Valid Isn’t Best Practice
June 9, 2010
Not long ago, on the @soupgiant account, I tweeted “Vaild html / css doesn’t indicate your code is best practice; it may even indicate the opposite. #css3″. Neither the xHTML nor the CSS on this site validates, we consider it to observe best practices.
Behind the Websites: JavaScript the WordPress Way / Part 2
June 4, 2010
In Part 1 we introduced the wp_register_script and wp_enqueue_script functions developed to avoid JavaScript conflicts.
In this section we’ll deal with a more complicated example. We’ll also take what we’ve learnt about including JavaScript and apply it to our CSS.
Behind the Websites: JavaScript the WordPress Way / Part 1
June 3, 2010
Problems arise when your theme or plugin both use the same JavaScript library or if Prototype and jQuery are both used on the same site.
Two of the most important WordPress functions are often ignored by WordPress theme and plugin developers. Introducing: wp_register_script and wp_enqueue_script.
Content Strategy: The Right Content for the Right Audience
May 31, 2010
What we’ve done in Soupgiant is take the blog portion of our website and move it over here to Big Red Tin. The two sites still link to each other. There’s no doubt that the people in charge over here are also in charge over there. It’s one and the same.
Behind the Websites: Rounded Corners Everywhere
May 26, 2010
Similar support of rgba and border-radius in modern browsers allows us to use both the old graphical and new css3 methods for rounded corners. This gives us the same look in almost all browsers.
Business: Thinking: More Important Than Ideas
April 23, 2010
Ideas come out of nowhere. We can’t hold onto them. We shouldn’t even try. Ideas are best blurted out and, subsequently, best thought over.
Business: Confirming a caller’s identity
December 21, 2009
The ATO called me last week and asked for my middle name and date of birth to confirm my identity. I told the operator that I wasn’t in the habit of giving out my personal details to incoming callers.
Content Strategy: 10 Ways to Draw Traffic to Your Site
December 4, 2009
Once you’ve started your site, your blog, or real time web app, there’s no point publishing and just hoping people will come.