I'm back!

I'm back!

Nov 1, 2017

Well.. it has been a little while, life, side projects and as I finally realised my favourite text editor acting as a stealth blocker to my blog writing.

I'm back

It is more the realisation that I have become totally reliant on in browser spell checking to help me keep my grammar in check. As much as moving to Jekyll had been a fun experiment, the act of writing blog posts in a text editor was a struggle.

I have a few posts that have been sitting waiting to be written so time to play catch up!

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Work and Play

Thoughts on the design industry and other bits and bobs. It is so important to mix time on a computer with other activites, be it out in the hills, geeking out or just reading a good book!

11 Dec - Covid comes a knocking

2020 +

2019 +

21 Nov - Creating complex layouts using CSS Grid
17 Sep - The future of micropayments - enter Coil
08 Sep - On a weak note
01 Sep - Are the summer holidays perfect training for studio management?
18 Jun - A new cycle route - but people still being crazy
05 Apr - Back to Basics - CSS & HTML
25 Mar - Back to Basics - Better Form User Experience
04 Mar - Websites are not for designers and developers, they are for users
06 Feb - 3 mistakes small businesses make with Wordpress
21 Jan - The best bike I ever bought... so far.

2018 +

21 Dec - Well that went quickly...
04 Oct - We are ALL idiots... to an extent
17 Jun - World Cup Dinners 2018
24 May - The Sun will still rise tomorrow
27 Feb - NET Magazine - Design Challenge
02 Feb - Prepare for GDPR - Understand your data
24 Jan - GDPR for small businesses
15 Jan - Time spent trying to be productive
08 Jan - Static Site Generators and JAMStack.

2017 +

31 Dec - Bring forth the sourdough!
01 Nov - I'm back!
21 Jul - A first for the second city, Birmingham Beer week begins today!
04 May - NET Magazine - New Old Tech
15 Jan - Keep on keeping on

2016 +

31 Oct - Inktober
20 Sep - Crazy 8s - How they can help any designer
09 Aug - Personas, you don’t need them… but they help!
17 Mar - Screen Printing Fun
02 Feb - The countdown begins
28 Jan - In search of perfection
03 Jan - Going back to basics with Jekyll

2015 +

31 Dec - The last ride of the year
26 May - The Matt Kendall Foundation
29 Jan - Apprenticeships in the Design Industry
26 Jan - It's time to stop being a busy fool

2014 +

14 Aug - The Business of Web Design 2014 #tboWD
31 Jul - My favourite band I never saw...
29 Jan - My first Parkrun
02 Jan - I am sorry Internet Explorer.. this cannot go on!

2013 +

29 Nov - Know when to hold them... know when to fold them.
17 Sep - And that is why you don't want to spend too much time swimming and snorkelling!
24 Jun - Summer Solstice 2013 - A #microadventure
06 Jun - Getting Started with Responsive Design
16 May - It is OK to hoard... you never know when you might need something!
15 May - 10 ways to back up your design work
15 May - 10 ways the role of 'web designer' is changing
13 Mar - Time waits for no one
02 Mar - Can you really design purely in a browser?
26 Feb - How do you support your ongoing clients with website updates/support? Do you use a retainer or charge hourly?
20 Feb - There is something about the darkside...
18 Feb - #ecomchat - Enhancing Ecommerce with Mobile
23 Jan - The problem with Getting things done...
18 Jan - Taking the blinkers off