I use Spotify a lot, I mean a lot. Between it and Last.fm I’m fairly sure I need never buy another album again. Sure, I miss the old days of listening to a freshly-purchased album whilst flicking through the artwork and sleeve notes, reading every last word (even the ‘thanks to…’ bit!) and absorbing the [...]
So you own a bicycle, right? You know, a couple of wheels, handlebars, a saddle, some brakes and gears, right? Well what if you took away those last two – the brakes and gears – is that still technically a bicycle? Well for many people it becomes something different, something simpler, boiling down the messy [...]
If you’re a regular last.fm listener and you have a penchant for stats then take a look at the beautiful Last.fm spiral by Sha Hwang. Entering your Last.fm username causes it to look back through your last years’ listening and produces something like the image shown here. Not only that, but you can interact with [...]
I have fairly specific auditory requirements to accompany my design time. I’ve never been able to work with lyrical music, so I constrain myself to acoustic music. To further narrow it down I swing between the alt-instrumental post-rock noodlings of artists such as Tristeza, Tortoise, Japancakes, The Letter E, Saxon Shore and Lanterna, and the [...]
I came across this conundrum a couple of weeks ago when I suggested to a client that it might be more productive to show them how to update their website, rather than keep asking me to do it for free. I would have liked to have based their site on WordPress in the first instance [...]
This one puzzled me for ages. I tried everything – transparent GIF’s, alpha-channel PNG’s and a big chisel. Then I found RoundedCornr and have never looked back! It’s basically a web-based css rounded corner machine that does all the hard work for you, you just feed it your desired corner radius, background colour, box colour [...]
Coffee Republic are to be the first coffee chain to offer free wifi access in the UK. A convenient feature given they recently opened a branch here in Bournemouth. Looks like I may have to find an excuse to work remotely next week, although it’ll do no good for my double amaretto latte addiction! To [...]
Web site design in Bournemouth, Dorset is a funny old business. Firstly, it’s a great place to live; there’s several blue flag beaches, more bars and nightclubs you can comfortably shake a stick at, a couple of cinemas and even a new branch of wagamama (very Londres). A Google search for “Web site design in [...]
Mike Rundle at Think Vitamin has written a great article surrounding an interesting acronym to help clear the muddy waters of website design. C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast, Repitition, Alignment and Proximity and it’s a must-read for anyone contemplating serious design work. Check it out at www.thinkvitamin.com
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