I opened up a Google+ account last week. I haven’t really used it yet and I can’t really work out how I feel about it. Google have obviously tried to roll up some of the key features that make Facebook and Twitter distinct into one new application. The main difference between Facebook and Twitter, in [...]
Last week I attended my first ever hack day, run by Radioplayer – an organisation that aggregates all the UK’s radio stations in a single online location. The day was great fun and I got to meet a bunch of interesting people, many of whom came from completely different disciplines to me. I learned plenty [...]
Tutorial for City University, School of Infomatics Web Applications Development Module – 2011 Download source files here. View demo here. In this tutorial we will cover a very basic implementation of the jQuery AJAX function. All projects like this need a starting point. At the moment I am favouring the HTML5 boilerplate by [...]
Having watched a few great short video tutorials from Think Vitamin, especially Responsive Web Design for Mobile by Keir Whitaker and a couple of videos by Nick Pettit, I’ve improved the responsive layout on the site. Images now resize correctly, the footer columns stack up vertically, and most importantly I ditched the width: 100%; style [...]
Added favicon and apple-touch icon, screengrab of the latter below. (This post is being written from my phone for good measure!) Also added image auto resizing and CSS media query to hide sidebar on small screens. This is not necessarily how I’ll treat the sidebar on small devices ultimately, but it’s a step towards the [...]
Couple of minor changes to the site tonight. Added a border partition to inactive nav elements, and cleaned up the vertical and horizontal alignment of the footer columns. Pics below for my own future enjoyment.
Put together a ‘base’ for my site’s redesign today. Took about two and a half hours of coding and messing about in Photoshop to put this together. Most of the page was designed in the browser, but used Photoshop at first to organise a pallette and to rough out main column placements. I’ve decided to [...]
This post is being written on my phone whilst I am sitting in a flat in north London. Testing out location based blogging services by geotagging this post.
Just a quick post to share my excitement about the release of the latest Doug Coupland novel, Generation A. Anyone who has already read it and has an opinion feel free to share comments below!
Good news sportsfans. charlieperrins.com is now fully validated to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype. The W3C is my friend again.