Tips

• Using AI to improve designs

  29th July 2023

  First off, I never planned to write a blog post about AI but today I used it for something that improved my designs a lot. A few days back, I posted a link to a website that had hit social and was getting a lot of attention. I think it’s a lovely well considered bit […]

• Stop doing these things

  19th March 2022

  First blog post of the new year and it’s almost April so my bad. Today I am writing about portfolios and CVs as I have spent the last few months going over so many as we look to expand our design team at the agency. Whilst going through them all, you start to see similar […]

• Line Length

  10th November 2019

  If like me you have looked at many a website over the years, you will have seen sites and often still do where you see large amounts of text that span the entire page width. The problem with this is that is often very hard for the user to read as it’s not legible. It […]

• Website Optimisation Tip : Typekit

  30th May 2017

  I recently did an overhaul of the website and one of the issues I was getting from Google Page Insights was that I needed to prioritise visible content. Which was confusing as I could see a lot of the content (in this case, a blog post). So I set about trying to find out what […]

• Removing spam from Google analytics and your website

  23rd May 2015

  If like me, you check your Analytics a lot and see stuff like best-seo-offer.com and semalt.com on there, it get’s a bit annoying when you think how much it is polluting your stats. Granted, it’s only a personal site in my case but I’ve seen it with clients. So how do you stop it? Within […]

• My website deconstructed

  21st May 2015

  I’ve recently redone my website.. Nobody cares Dan. No, I’m sure. I’m just wanting to talk about the process I went through as I changed direction a bit and really had a lot of fun…and learnt a it too. Design To begin, I really wanted to bring some character to the site, plus recently, I’d […]

• Fast and furious websites

  24th April 2015

  I’ve recently redone my website. I wanted to try and strip a lot of stuff out of it as well as trying my hand at some new stuff like animations which I think I’ve pulled off alright. Along with all that, I wanted to make it as modern in terms of tech as I could […]

• Page Speeds – Work In Progress

  25th April 2013

  As a front-ender, I should be aware of how quick things are loading on any site I have built / worked on. If I’m openly honest, up until this week, I didn’t take it that seriously unless something major stood out. I work with a chap called Colin who is an advocate of reducing your […]

• Google Maps – Pin positioning tip

  16th April 2013

  I might be very new to the party on this but it is something that has been a pain in the arse for me for a good while now and that is the position of a google map pin and the bubble with the contact information in it. Too many times when you load up […]

• Adding an active class to a menu

  6th April 2013

  If you have ever wanted to have an active state on a menu item and you don’t know how to do it and your platform doesn’t do it by default (Like WordPress), here is some javascript that works. function scriptInit() { if (!document.getElementById) { return; } } function addEvent(elm, evType, fn, useCapture) { if (elm.addEventListener) […]

• Email build tips you may not know

  5th April 2013

  Building an email can be a tricky task. You have to undo all knowledge you know of the web and go back 10 years or so to working with tables. And with it, all the fun of the email clients and their little quirks. Now some of these you’ll probably know, some you may not […]