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Read Item Descriptions for God's Sake!

Read Item Descriptions for God’s Sake!

This is not a design post, so that scares you off, you might want to read one of the previous entries. Also if you have no interest in Dota2, DotA or MOBAS, ditto. Every so often when finding a match, particularly if the loveliness of Eskom power outages decides to make sure I receive an abandonment in Dota2 and I get sent to Low Priority, I notice an amazing trend of players having no concept of…

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CSS and Stuff : Pure CSS Parallax Scrolling Background

CSS and Stuff : Pure CSS Parallax Scrolling Background

Hello there, welcome to the first in the series of “CSS and Stuff”, today I’m going to be showing you how to do parallax scrolling (with an image background as an example) using only a few lines of CSS! Can you do this with Javascript? Yes. Is my way better?Yes! It’s fast, small code and doesn’t require anything other than good ol’ HTML and CSS. Plus it loads using the GPU!

The Markup

Firstly, I…

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Flexible Flat Design : Why it's better than purely flat

Flexible Flat Design : Why it’s better than purely flat

So when of the biggest trends in web design at the moment and for a while has been flat design. Microsoft started pushing that with Windows 8, and iOS7 has also updated to it. There are problems with purely flat or rather, rigid flat designs. Firstly, it limits user interaction as there is now clear visual indication that an interactive foreground item is clickable (or touchable). On the other…

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Terminology : Help pl0x?!

Terminology : Help pl0x?!

Aha, a post detailing what Designers, Front-End Developers, UI people, UX people, hell, ACRONYMN people do…and why I’ve decided to just shorten my title as I’m not bloody hip enough to keep up with terms, let’s face it. Want to know more? Join me and let’s learn about being uncool!

Confusing terminology is confusing

It bloody well it is! Granted, I know what a designer does, and I know what a…

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Webdesign Firms - Differences and what's the cost

Webdesign Firms – Differences and what’s the cost

Hello there again! I’m back with another post, this time on what type of designers you get, why they charge what they charge and which one we are. Stay tuned, or rather peruse with peril!

So who does Webdesign?

Well, we do. But that’s not what you meant. You mean what sort of people or companies do web design. The first and most common firm is an agency. They’re the big bosses, the top dogs, the…

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SEO : When are you missing the point?

SEO : When are you missing the point?

Hello there! Today I will be talking about SEO, what it is and why so many bloody people are missing the point. Odd opening statement from a boutique doing SEO? You bet ya! But be assured, you’ll see why I’m saying a lot of people do miss the point and why the point should be explained and focused on.

Please don’t sue me Keanu Reeves

What is SEO?

SEO is obviously Search Engine Optimization, it’s…

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Mobile First : It works beautifully

Mobile First : It works beautifully

Hopefully Gilette doesn’t sue me for the title, but none the less, I’m going to be explaining something quite obvious that a lot know, but something I still something not yet implemented today on many sites. Sure, there are counter arguments, but I’m right, and I’ll show why.

Mobiles and Responsive Design

Mobile phones, tablets, kindles, tvs and phablets (yes, they exist), have changed the way we…

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