Blogging and all that Malarkey

While I was in Japan, Anna chatted with her “big brother,” Ryan Taylor. They discussed working from home, apprenticeships, front-end portfolios, and working with a hybrid designer/developer.

My Responsive Web Design workshop at Smashing Magazine is getting closer and some tickets are still available. In the meantime, here are three useful new resources for responsive layout using CSS3:

The Stuff and Nonsense nutty boys header is pretty tall and I decided I wanted to reduce its height for small screens, such as phones, in landscape orientation. When I wrote the CSS to make this happen I made some nutty assumptions. In the spirit of sharing our mistakes:

Two shows in one week. Aren’t you the lucky one? While I’m in Japan for two weeks, Anna’s joined by Ashley Baxter, who took over her father’s insurance business at eighteen. They talk about starting young, learning new skills, determination, vision and overcoming fear.

While Anna is en vacance en France, in this week’s episode of Unfinished Business I’m joined by guest co-host, designer Laura Kalbag to talk about mentoring students and how to give them, and other newcomers, valuable commercial project experience. Laura also talks about how best to ask for, and deal with, client feedback while I remember Mickey, the world’s cleverest chimpanzee.

I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s new, Madness -inspired home page header. We certainly enjoyed making it.

I like to think that at Stuff and Nonsense, our house isn’t so much a place to work as it is a house of fun and although we take the work we do very seriously, we don’t take ourselves too seriously at all. We hope that sense of fun comes across on our site and today we’re putting aside our embarrassment, putting on our baggy trousers and unveiling a new header on our home page.

Jordan Moore (who wears rattlesnake skin shoes) on how to give users the option to “Toggle a Responsive Design On and Off”:

Following my visit to the University of Ulster in Belfast, in this week’s; Unfinished Business, Anna and I talk about how hard it is to keep up with new technologies and techniques and how to decide what aspects of web design and development to learn next.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the people at Smashing Magazine and I loved being at their Smashing Conference last September, so when they asked me if I’d like to be a part of their workshop programme, I didn’t hesitate to say “yes.” This coming June my wife and I will be heading back to beautiful Freiburg where I’ll host a ‘ CSS3 for Responsive Web Design’workshop.