Written at 12pm on 19.11.08
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A couple of weeks ago, I started advertising on my site. Before I go any further, please let me start this post by giving you my opinion on online advertising:
The majority of it is evil, shallow, intrusive, and pointless. However, there are a few occasional exceptions to the rule. SidebarAds are one of those exceptions.
The Deck / SidebarAds / Fusion Ads
Most of you are probably familiar with The Deck, the Coudal-organised ad network whose members are very big names in the web community (Veerle,
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Written at 11am on 14.11.08
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With the end of the year rapidly approaching, and having just got back from 2008’s last speaking gig, I thought now would be a good to time to consolidate my presentations from all of the events I spoke at this year.
Future of Web Design - London, UK (April)
The first speaking event of the year was a particularly memorable one. On the day of the actual event, I got on stage with Andy, Jina,
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Written at 9am on 24.10.08
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Last week I launched the new version of samanthacliffe.com, home to hundreds of beautiful photographs taken by the exceptionally talented young lady known as - you guessed it - Samantha Cliffe. This young lady also happens to be my girlfriend.
Now, before you scroll down for my tedious explanations, please head over to the site and take a look around. Virtually every photo on there is available as a print, so if you want to buy one, please just let Sam know. Alternatively, you can visit her Etsy […]
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Written at 1pm on 21.10.08
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UPDATE: I’ve got a promo code for WDN that’ll give you a discount on the ticket price. Scroll down for info…
I’m really excited to be announcing some more speaking events; this time for the first few months of 2009. I gots me some travellin’ to do!
Oxford Geek […]
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Written at 11am on 13.10.08
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Last week I wrote a post called Why being freelance does not mean you have to work more hours, which seemed to resonate with a few people. But I hold my hands up for deceiving you with the title, because - as I realised a couple of days after posting it - I didn’t actually explain the why; in other words, I offered no explanation as to how I work less hours now that I’m freelancing.
Not only that, but I came under some criticism (fair […]
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Written at 8am on 06.10.08
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Before I took the plunge and left full-time employment to set up my own business, there was one piece of advice that was given to me by almost every design professional I spoke to: Prepare to work a lot more hours.
So I went into it with a level head, prepared for this seemingly inevitable sacrifice. But I also went into it with a concerted effort to turn this stereotype around. In my mind, if I was sensible about the way I worked […]
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Written at 12pm on 18.09.08
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UPDATED 03.11.2008 - A couple of small fixes (see the read_me file)
UPDATED 29.09.2008 - Please see this comment for info
Since I released my naked, bare-bones, blank-canvas, starting-point WordPress theme ‘Starkers’ back in January, a huge amount of people appear to be using it as the basis for their own projects, and it’s become much more popular than I ever imagined. As a result, I’ve finally updated the theme to be fully compatible with the latest (at the time of writing) stable release of WordPress: version 2.6.2.
If you’d like […]
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Written at 1pm on 09.09.08
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UPDATE: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at Spletne Urice in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 29th October. The itinerary below has been updated.
SkillSwap Brighton
I spoke at the Bristol wing of SkillSwap last year and had a great time. This time around, I’ll be sharing the stage with my mate Paul Annett (Senior Designer at ClearLeft), who has a great-sounding discussion lined […]
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Written at 1pm on 01.09.08
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Remember back in April when I blogged about my ‘Create The Perfect Logo’ feature in .net magazine? You guessed it: this post is of a similar ilk (read: shameless plug).
Some of you will know how I’ve talked about design theft in the past, as it’s happened to me on more than one occasion. It’s a subject close to my heart, so when .net asked me to write an article about it, I jumped at the chance.
Like the logo feature, this one’s made […]
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Written at 1pm on 27.08.08
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Today - 27th August - is the day that Internet Explorer 6 was unleashed unto the world seven years ago. Seven years ago!
M. Dave Auayan thinks it’s high time we stopped supporting this horrid little piece of software and has launched the IE Death March, a site dedicated to discontinuing IE6 support by March 2009. He’s listing sites that have stopped / will stop IE6 support; little pieces of the web you may have heard of such as Facebook, Mobile Me, and 37signals, to name but […]
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Written at 4pm on 13.08.08
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It’s that time of year again, when we of the design-centric blogosphere pimp our panel submissions for SXSW. This year, I’m asking if you wouldn’t mind taking a brief moment to vote for two:
“Thinking Outside The Box? There Is No Box!”
Vote for this panel
I’m proposing a dual presentation with my pal Bryan Veloso, the man you know and love behind Avalonstar and Revyver, one of the splendid chaps from Sidebar Creative, and the web design world’s undisputed king of Dance Dance Revolution. […]
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Written at 7pm on 11.08.08
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So del.icio.us is now just delicious.com, eh? And a less-than-spectacular redesign, too?
This has reminded me to post something about how I use the Delicious service rather than its website. I’ve never been one for social bookmarking. Not that I’m a miserable old git who likes to keep all my goodies to myself (well, just a tad), but I’ve always been put off by the sites that offer the service. I like my bookmarks in my browser menu, goddamit, and that’s where I’ll have them!
Not only that; personally […]
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