The making of
I generally don’t buy into the whole “justification” of a design but in the spirit of sharing I thought I’d put down some of the thought process and technical implementation behind this site. It has to...
View ArticleProportional Grids
I’ve been working with responsive design for a year or two now, and one thing that has always been a bit of an issue is flexible grids. It’s obvious that as screen size gets larger, layout must...
View ArticleShortcode include
If you’re working with WordPress, here’s a neat snippet I’ve picked up recently. It allows you to call a template file anywhere in the content body using a shortcode. You might have a panel with...
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Simple social sharing buttons
Lately there’s been a fair amount of chat about dropping social media buttons and some great solutions to the problems they cause too. Whether you should drop them or not (i’ll leave that debate) there...
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Hiding comments is idiocy
Swift post on a bugbear of mine – blog comments which are hidden on mobiles! Comments are the thing I return to check after I’ve read a post, during those bored moments on the train, toilet or...
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Responsive Design case study
Last month Mixd launched a website for the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We believe it to be the first truly responsive (as opposed to adaptive) NHS Trust website in the UK. It should be...
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Custom Post Type Permalinks
Following my responsive case study I had a few people raise comments about the customisation of WordPress in order to use it in a more CMS-friendly way. One of the main issues people seem to encounter...
View ArticleUsing OOCSS, Sass and Media Queries
Lately, the majority of the discussion around CSS has changed. We seem to be moving away from the cool new things that CSS3 can do and on towards creating an efficient and logical architecture. This is...
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Teaching at Leeds University
I’ve been a bit quiet lately but intend to get back to blogging fairly soon. I have been working my nuts off at work on another exciting NHS project which I can’t wait to see live. The work I put into...
View ArticleUpdate: Responsive Grids
Even after developing my own grid system back in July, I’m always keen to try out other people’s. Using Proportional Grids on a number of projects with a great degree of success though — as a matter of...
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