- Add a widget to a WordPress page or post via a shortcode – with default values
- Adding column number CSS classes to WordPress widgets
- Transferring WordPress sql data between localhost and production
- Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design
- Android CSS background image blurriness
- Semantic HTML
- Facebook pages suck, personas are better for marketing
- Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace
- Flash site templates that work on iPhone (& iPad)
- Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object
UX/Design
Project: Social voting with Chopsumi
Chopsumi.com is a new online tool for easily organising your friends and improving your social life. The problem that Chopsumi solves is pinning down as many of your friends as possible to a specific date and location for your event. Previously this was achieved via long email discussions and a lot of work on by [...]
Also posted in 2012, Featured, product management, Projects
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Project: MyCareer.com.au 1024px redesign
The MyCareer.com.au web site was originally built when 800×600 was the most common browser size. By December 2006, an expansion of the site to a wider aspect was needed. The business case was predominantly to cater for standardised ad sizes, specifically a Leaderboard in the header area and 300px columns to suit medium-rectangle sizes. However [...]
Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites
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House swap travel sites
The client brief for this House Swap Holidays was for it to feel Australian but not overly ‘ocker’ or stereotypical/cringeworthy. Virgin Blue was cited as a good starting point – a little bit cheeky but ‘modern’.
Also posted in 2009, Code, Featured, web sites
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smh.com.au redesign 2007
The revamp of the smh.com.au was a task that the Fairfax Media Creative Services Unit was asked to undertake in mid 2007.
Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites
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Good Food Guides 2011
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Good Food Guides are the Michelin Guides of Australia. If you are into food then you have these on your shelf and consult them regularly. If you work in the restaurant industry then you await their publication each year with a sense of foreboding or giddy hope that [...]
Hippo.com.au redesign
Hippo.com.au is a youth focused employment site that was launched in 2005. Like other players in the market it’s fortunes took a hit towards the end of 2008 as the GFC hit and many employers took a risk averse approach to hiring.
Also posted in 2010, Code, consulting, CSS, Featured, SEO, web design advice, web sites
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Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design
User Experience (UX) is where I spend most of my time in web and mobile development. Designing/Creating/Architecting/Planning the product all involves working on how the user will experience the product.
Also posted in consulting
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Android CSS background image blurriness
Recently I completed some UI intensive work for a client that was designed for smart-phones. The project was targeted at iPhone and Android users primarily and being web based, made heavy use of CSS3 and HTML5 to achieve the desired highly graphical user interface. During the course of the project we noticed that some Android [...]
Also posted in Code, CSS, mobile
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