Manchester web designer Phil Thompson
If you don’t check your HTML emails in a variety of different email clients with images turned on and off you risk of running into trouble. Especially if you like to put funny phrases in your alt tags (attributes) of your spacer GIFs like in this recent email newsletter from Schuh.
After much deliberation about when and how to go wireless in our home, last week I finally took the plunge with a purchase of an Airport Express from Apple.
This week, some good news regarding reading RSS feeds. FeedDemon (PC) and NetNewsWire (Mac) are now free.
Inspired by a post called process over at The Watchmaker Project, I thought I’d share my general process of working and getting these pesky websites built.
For the last 7 months, I’ve been doing the occasional freelance web job as well as my full-time job and it’s been both enjoyable and stressful.
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GeekUp is a community of web industry professionals based in the North of England (Manchester, Liverpool & Leeds). It provides a job board and regular get-togethers which helps to get freelancers out of their houses once a month. I think GeekUp is awesome but I think it can be improved and here’s how:
There seems to a great misconception amongst the web agency-employing-section-of-society as to what a web designer does and in particular what all the different disciplines in web design/development are.
Your success as web designer depends on your ability to communicate to those people what you will do for their money.
Following on from last week’s rapturously received What web agencies can learn from Gordon Ramsay post, I’m continuing the series with a take on the advice of Sarah Beeny.
For those, who do not know, Sarah Beeny is a highly successful property guru/writer/TV presenter who presents (among other TV shows) Property Ladder. This show is essentially shows Beeny following the progress of novices in the property development industry and shows the mistakes they make.
For those, who do not know, Gordon Ramsay is a highly successful British chef/restaurateur/TV presenter who presents (among other TV shows) Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. This show is essentially about Ramsay improving the prospects of flagging UK restaurants.
Although, different every week, Ramsay’s underlying message is the same. If your restaurant has certain characteristics and good food you will (be more likely to) succeed in the industry.
I recently sat in a pub and tried to convince a good friend of mine why they could/should blog. Their point of view was that they couldn’t fathom why anyone would want to read what they had to say. My point is that everyone has something interesting to say but, they don’t necessarily know what that something is.
Global warming is a very real issue and changing your attitude and activities to reduce your carbon footprint is easily done at home (i.e. turning off your TV instead of pressing standby) but is it possible to be an environmentally-friendly web designer?
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