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With a little under two weeks left until I get the overall mark for my degree, I decided to flex my design muscles and attempt to put together a nice one page, responsive CV/resume: and here is the result!

I was browsing the LESS.js website a last week, marvelling at the ideas behind it. I scrolled back up to the top of the page to find the download button. I spotted it and instantly assumed it was a purely HTML and CSS3 creation due to it's simplicity, but it turned out it was an image. I was struck by an idea: recreate this button using only markup and CSS3, no images allowed!

The lack of updates this past few months has a very good reason: I've been working diligently on my final year project UR!KA. I posted about this for the first time way back in March last year, and at the half way point I've got to say I'm happy with my progress. A video about the project is on the full post! Have a look!

One of my modules this year was to recreate part of the dwarven city of Ironforge from the World of Warcraft using Maya 2009. I have never really ventured into 3D so I didn't really know what to expect from the module, and at first I was a little skeptical about how much I would actually enjoy it. All in all though, I'm very appreciative of having this module as part of the course, and am very happy with the ...

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When I first set out with this new design last May, I promised myself that the site would be equal parts portfolio and writing. The reason for this is I wanted the 'blog' to be full of useful information on web development and the like, rather than superfluous diary entries. And so, in what little free time I have to dedicate to this site, I've updated the portfolio ...

In the ideal web developer's world, we want all visitors to a website to start at the home page; thats what its there for. To smoothly guide your users to the different subsections or features if they prefer browsing, show experienced users where to get the latest relevant information, and have an appropiate way for users to search the page. But that may not always be the case: the home page will not be the entry point for most users ...

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"We don't read text, we scan it": Don't Make Me Think, Krug, 2006. The web is an interesting medium for communicating a message to a user. Compared with say, print, the methods employed to do so are different chiefly because the web has that extra dimension: interaction, hence the reason that translation from one medium to another is often not as successfull as you might think. The other element that the web often has is the ability to travel through ...

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Okay. Redesign is not happening yet. I had set myself the deadline to finish it by the May 1st Reboot, but to no avail. I think the main problem is that when you spend 9 hours of every day working with websites, primarily programming, the last thing you want to do in your downtime at home is feel pressured to design a website for a deadlineBefore India I had a knack for rubbing my eyebrows if I was stressed, ...

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