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• Surviving (the inevitable) Z-Apocalypse

  • Design
  • 06/01/09
  • 15 comments
  

  The other night during the night of festivities that were the Erskine Christmas party, I became obsessed with various people’s obsession with my obsession of the undead. I thought I’d do a little post for all you zombie-laymans, containing a few tips and opinions that you may use should you find yourself in an apocalyptic (undead-specific) situation.

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• Flog the alive horse instead

  • Article
  • 12/06/08
  • 1 comment

  We get told to “innovate” a lot in the web industry. New ideas, practices and technologies are thrown at us on a daily basis, each post in your feed reader as innovative as the next. In terms of design we’re looking everywhere but at a screen for inspiration, using all sorts of CSS trickery to enhance our pages for a lucky half dozen, and using the latest trendy real-world texture to make our sites stand out. But if everyone’s doing the next innovative thing, how original can we really be?

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• Negative hovers piss me off

  • Article
  • 05/06/08
  • 6 comments

  You heard. Web links that behave negatively when you hover over them piss me off. I don’t know why, and I know it’s not a massively significant issue, but it seems like a lot of people (including myself in the past) regularly fail to grasp the point of a hover/focus state.

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• Being overly anal with HTML enduces rage

  • Article
  • 02/04/08
  • 4 comments

  In the strange lands of HTML, semantics purism has been a fairly hot topic of late. With the help of some slightly more advanced CSS2 selectors, web developers have been able to start cutting out those unnecessary divisions and nasty classes, but are they just making more work for themselves?

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• Queuing for 3 days to buy a phone?! Someone save me

  • Note
  • 30/06/07
  • 3 comments

  The world is officially going crazy. Hundreds of people queuing for up to three days on end for a phone! If anyone can tell me a decent reason for giving up friends, family, home and any sort of comfort for this amount of time in order to purchase a phone (overpriced as it is), I’ll give you a pat on the back.

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