A few months ago I began using LESS for the first time on a particularly large scale project. Since then I have definitely found it useful, especially for the larger projects where the design can change between iterations. At the moment I’m using it to streamline the process of theming online stores and it seems [...]
Where’s my Spotify?
For some reason I can’t fathom, Ireland is rather neglected when it comes to music and tv licencing online. I would dearly love to understand this phenomenon but in the meantime while wishing for Spotify I did a look around at what else is on offer. The Eircom Music Hub is quite a good offering [...]
International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2012! In a week where it’s been reported, yet again, that here in Ireland women earn less than men by a good margin, it’s a good time to be promoting women’s interests. Especially in a country where female representation in the Dail is only about 13%. For a list of event’s [...]
Image Centering with CSS
I’ve often had problems getting an image or a row of images to centre vertically in a div using just CSS. 2 weeks again when faced with this problem yet again while creating a logo slider, I cracked it. I’ve looked into this issue several times in the last few years without finding a definitive [...]
New Adventures in HTML5
Since HTML5 exploded onto the web design scene over the last year or so I’ve seen many wonderful and varied examples, read some of the books and investigated tools such as H5bp, Modernizer, shiv/shim and Initializr. I even got started with my own HTML5 endeavours with a simple, single page client site. But now it’s [...]
Pro Tip: PayPal Optional
PayPal Optional is a handy little setting within your PayPal accout which allows you to say whether or not customers can use any old credit card to pay you or whether they need to have a PayPal account. For most people, having PayPal Optional set to on and taking payments with regular credit cards is [...]
Switching keyboard layout in Windows
I’m writing this post because this keeps getting me! I’ll be working away on my work PC, which is running Windows 7 (but I had the same issue on Vista) and then my ” and @ keys swap position in the application I’m working in (usually Photoshop or Visual Studio). What I mean by this [...]
Blog Downtime
Apologies to anyone who was trying to view the blog in the last few days and got through to a “redesign underway” holding page. My unbelievably incompetent hosting company managed to mess up 3 of the main websites in my hosting account and send them pointing back to a server I was on last year. [...]
