WordPress wins CMS Awards

November 20, 2009  FILED TO: Software, Web Design

I’ve been using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) for about four years now.  Back when I began, it was simply a blogging platform but I discovered it was easy to customise, easy for clients to add content and came with lots of useful plugins and an open API, which made it ideal in [...]

Learning standards-based HTML & CSS

November 20, 2009  FILED TO: Web Design

A couple of people have asked me recently how I create clean markup so quickly. I don’t find it particularly hard, I do it by hand in a systematic manner. But I have a lot of learning behind me that I apply. So, in this blog I reveal my process as well as a few [...]

The morals of Search Engine Optimisation

May 4, 2009  FILED TO: Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but every time I get an email offering reciprocal links or paid website reviews, I immediately hit the “spam” button and sigh a deep sigh.  In the “real” world, it takes time to build a good reputation, for individuals and for businesses; in the Internet world, it seems that people don’t [...]

What do I do?

April 24, 2009  FILED TO: Web Design

Here’s a great explanation!
This YUI Theater entry captures one of the courses Nate has taught at Yahoo, “Professional Frontend Engineering.” It covers the foundations of the discipline, some of its core ideas, and some of of its best practices. If you are looking to reset your own assumptions about “web development” or “frontend work”, I [...]

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