In keeping with my plan to get to as many events as I can afford, I headed off to the Future of Web Design tour in Leeds on Wednesday. When the tickets were first announced, I was a little disappointed when I realised I wasn’t going to see Paul Boag or Drew McLellan. However, as [...]
I wasn’t (and I’m still not) 100% happy with some bits of the design, but before I fixed them I wanted to recode the site using html5. I’m still not sure I understand all of the elements yet, but it’s getting there. I seem to be using an awful lot of <section> tags instead of [...]
You may recall that I said I was designing myself a new theme. It was all going well until I realised I couldn’t design at all. I had a stroke of inspiration, and hacked out the design you see to the left directly in html/css, no photoshop involved. However, when it came to design the [...]
… it’s just not perfect yet.
As some of you know, I’m not very creative. This posed a pretty big problem when I decided I wanted a blog theme that no-one else would have. Sure, I could have paid someone to do it (I like Ryan Taylors design on the hodge’s blog) but I’m a student, [...]
