McDonald’s rotates two TV commercials for its dollar menu. They both give terrible messages about professional and personal behavior. Honesty and confidence are great qualities in every situation. Acting as a sycophant or lying to people…aren’t so good! Don’t be... [read more]
I was surprised to see an infographic at CSS-Tricks. It showed that LESS was a more popular CSS preprocessor than Sass. I’d always thought that Sass had the higher profile. I use Sass, and I think it’s great because it... [read more]
I read an interesting article today on Site Sketch 101; “Nofollow vs Dofollow: The Verdict Is In“. A good piece, with some useful insights, but a verdict I disagree with. I like dofollow links. Bar some very specific circumstances, I... [read more]
One of the great things about my role at Function(x), Inc is working on building a great front end development team. I’ve been interviewing a lot of developers over the past few weeks. It’s forced me to clearly define the... [read more]
It’s very easy for a company to quickly fall victim to online criticism. An accusation of illegal activity, or even just bad customer service, can quickly go viral. It seems that social media criticism is the first method used when... [read more]
I’ve been really disheartened the last day or so to see Twitter and other social media talking about the minor copyright violation by Lamar Smith. It’s a distraction from the campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It’s been great... [read more]
Sometimes I come across a blog post that just annoys me because it’s inaccurate and misleading. Today I read “Don’t Hire A Website Designer – You Don’t Need One“, and it inspired me to write a response. Even a small... [read more]
Yesterday I read a great article asking whether the traditional business card is dead. I don’t think so. In many ways I think it’s more important than ever. In an age of web and technology, the impact of physical media... [read more]
My job title at TerraCycle is Web Design and User Experience Manager. To me, it could just as easily be simply Web Design Manager, or User Experience Manager. They mean much the same thing. There’s an increasing trend towards dividing... [read more]
The web design versus content question comes up pretty regularly, which is surprising given what a pointless debate it is. So many articles seem to look at the issue as some kind of competition between the two. They make the... [read more]
