Responsive Web Design: The Big Picture
Responsive Web Design isn’t a silver bullet for mobile Web experiences. Not only does client-side adaptation require a careful approach, but it can also be difficult to optimize source order, media, third-party widgets, URL structure, and application design within a RWD solution. - Luke Wroblewski, Digital Product Design Leader, Entrepreneur and Author/Speaker
Innovations in smart phones and tablets have changed the mobile landscape introducing new challenges in design and development.
Design Choices: Building a Better Home Page
I buy flowers and gifts for family and friends from an online retailer called Bloomex. I always start on their home page to try and locate an item within my price range. This task takes more time than it should because the site fails to address basic usability.
In this article I will explain my solution and hope to emphasize the importance of making design decisions using proven usability practices and design fundamentals. Lets not forget common sense
Yes, you can ride your bike to work in winter
I must admit. I love strolling into my office building’s elevator in the morning completely soaked, holding my travel mug with a smile on my face. You may have seen one of these creatures at your workplace. Apparently we are a strange breed!
Photo: Winston Hearn
Bike commuting is possible all year round. I’ve lived in three different cities with three different climates and rode through drenching rain, ice, deep snow and frigid temperatures.
In the this article, I share a few gear and riding tips which I found have helped me through many sketchy weather conditions
Creating Unique Sidebar Content for WordPress Pages using Custom Post Types
In this article, I show how to use Wordpress’ custom post functionality to create unique sidebar content blocks for static pages which run off the same template.
A non-profit organization I volunteer for recently requested a way to add contextual content to specific Wordpress page sidebars. The content could include quotes, donation and course banners and other images which were related to the content of the page.
The website has almost 100 static pages which use page.php as their template. The challenge was to find functionality which could provide page-specific sidebar content that could easily be administrated by volunteers who had a wide variety of technical backgrounds.
I usually try to provide custom functionality for my clients without resorting to Wordpress plugins. Don’t get me wrong, I love plugins for a lot of things such as displaying the latest tweets, optimizing SEO and displaying content via light boxes (all of which are used on this site). I just don’t always care for the excessive quantity of poorly outputted code which often accompanies the functionality.