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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 site is online (somewhere). The codebase has been handed over to the examiners. Now its simply a task of writing the report and user manual and hopefully, hopefully, one the project gets marked in late May, I can set about putting it live. Beta of course.

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!

A few weeks ago I was approached by WhyCommunicate, a company run by a friend of mine, who were hoping to use the newly released Google Analytics API to provide client's with analytics information in their existing extranet. I loved the ambition of it, and I hadn't worked with an API before so I thought this was a great venture for me and went for it. You can see the finished result over here in ...

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Things have been busy in my niche of the realm of men. I've nearly finished my project involving the Google Analytics API so I should be writing about that soon, but in the mean time I just thought I'd write a post of thanks. I'm just a small-time developer who is hoping to make a living out of his one-time hobby, so I am always appreciative of whatever support I get. This site is a labour of love: always has been, ...

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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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The worst client I have ever worked for is myself. A dozen times since I mentioned I was going to do a redesign I've gone through the same process: get a brain wave for a site structure and design, spend countless hours dodging other work while I code it into XHTML and CSS, then spend so long looking at the design while I'm doing other things that I get sick of it. This one was the exception. I actually did the ...

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Today (April 9th) is CSS Naked Day, all day long. Enjoy the ugly. (This all validates too funnily enough! Checked the validator yesterday for the first time for a long time. Probably not SEO friendly though eeek)