August 16th, 2010
I nearly forgot about linking to this, my first article for a while.
For those who may have noticed I’ve been doing a few Google Analytics articles for Six Revisions and the latest published a few weeks ago looks at the basics of tracking searches on your site and what you can start to glean from the information available in Google Analytics. Click on the image to go and read the article.
July 15th, 2010
For those unaware I am no longer working full time in web development and instead I’m flying planes around Europe for easyJet. That does not however mean I’m not doing web stuff anymore, I am! I’m pleased to still be involved at Armitage Online and they recently launched two sites that I’d been working on. The first is Leonardsfield House, a website for a Keswick guest house which is based on the nifty little CMS Perch, which is brilliant for straight forward no nonsense CMS needs.
July 5th, 2010
Well I’ve not posted on here for a while but it doesn’t mean I’m not busy. In fact it means I am very busy.
For those who don’t pop onto Smashing Magazine too often you may not have noticed but I wrote an article for them a while back which has just been published. It’s about using decision making models and applying them to web design scenarios, so why not go and check it out.
Decision-Making Models In Web Development
May 9th, 2010
This was requested on the original CSS hover tabs post and as usual it has taken me ages to get around to doing it.
Anyway it is just the previous version realigned and also with an added tab to show you how easy it is to customise and add extra tabs.
You can view the demo here, it’s pretty straight forward and I won’t go into detail as it is all worked using the same principles as the original post so read that first and then take a look at the source of this one. It’ll do you good to do some thinking and look at what’s changed!
March 25th, 2010
Lake Windermere, see it’s really nice up here. (image Flickr)
Well do you? Are you a great web designer or developer looking to work for an upcoming web agency? You get encouraged to use new web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 and get to work in an area with some great scenery to boot?
Do you want my job!? – quite literally. I’m leaving as a nice man with an orange airline has offered me a job flying his planes. However I’m still sad as Armitage has been a great place to work and Andrew is a brilliant boss.
So if you feel you’d like to work in the Lake District and spend your weekdays building great websites for some great clients and then have the weekends to freely explore the Lakes then head over and read the full job spec on the Armitage http://www.armitageonline.co.uk/about/jobs/ and retweet this and pass it on to anyone you think might be interested.
This doesn’t mean this site will go to rack and ruin, I’ll still be blogging and still doing some web stuff it just won’t be full time so expect the same little tips and tricks and musing from me.
March 17th, 2010
This weeks interviewee for the randomiser is the designer behind the great blog Web Designer Notebook, Inayaili De León.
March 15th, 2010
Head over to Six Revisions for my new guest article on Google Analytics Goals and Funnels, the start of a series of posts digging into some more advanced Google Analytics set-ups.
If you’re interested in Analytics you may also want to check out my new side project StatShare.
March 12th, 2010
Well I have a new project I’ve been looking to start putting together for a while but I’ve got as far as a domain and a holding page. The project is called StatShare and is at http://www.statshare.net. The aim is for people to share their website analytic reports via the site, anonymously, and they will then be collected together and analysed to produce useful data on bounce rates, visitor numbers and conversion rates amongst other things. By giving sites profiles the site will hopefully deliver reports on bounce rates for blogs in various traffic bands for example.
If you’re interested head over to http://www.statshare.net and pop in your email address and be sure to follow the official StatShare twitter account @statshare.
Oh and there’s a bit of webkit animation in there if you can find it! – enjoy.
March 8th, 2010
The randomiser makes it way to number 7 after a little break, and it’s web designer and developer Sam Brown who joins in those all ready randomised.
March 3rd, 2010
Being rather busy I completely forgot to post the link to this last week, but I wrote an article for the great tutorial site NetTuts about CSS3 transitions.
It is a introduction for those who haven’t used the transitions before and goes on to a little more advanced usage within CSS3 animations – so go check it out at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/css-fundametals-css-3-transitions/
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