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In this section you will find news, tips, tricks and tutorials about web design/development, graphic design and e-marketing. Hopefully, some will give you ideas for your business. If you have any questions or suggestions about the articles, please comment on them in case there is someone else reading the website who will find it useful.

UX details: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail

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Apple are renowned for making their apps really simple to use, so that they “just work”. But how much work goes into them making them so simple to use?

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Posted on: 25th Jan, 2011 in Design,

Managing your website source code - my method to avert madness (and lose your stuff)

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Whether your website is large or small it is more than likely worth a lot to you and your business. I this article I will detail how I, if you are a client of mine, look after your site by using source code management and various backup plans.

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Posted on: 21st Jan, 2011 in Web development,

A plea to restaurant owners everywhere: please ask for a mobile-friendly site

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Whereas a lot websites aim to keep visitors for as long as possible, restaurant websites just need to give people the information they want as quickly and simply as possible, no matter where they are and what they are using to connect to the internet.

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Posted on: 11th Jan, 2011 in Design, Web design, Web development,

An updated Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet

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What follows below is a variation on the Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet that comes “included” from atebits, the Tweetie for Mac developer.

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Posted on: 15th May, 2009 in Software,

Bookmarklet to add the currently viewed web page to Omnifocus

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A couple of problems I came across whilst using OmniFocus were that:

  • whilst on the Mac the the ‘Add to Inbox’ keyboard shortcut doesn’t work inside Firefox
  • when I am away from my Mac (i.e. at work on my PC) I have no way to send stuff into OmniFocus for later (of course, I could use the iPhone app, but typing out long protracted URLs isn’t the best use of my time!)

So I set about writing a bookmarklet for my browser that would take the web page I’m looking at, wrap it up in an Gmail/Google Apps email and send it to an ‘unused’ email address (I use my MobileMe one) so that later, when I start up Mail.app on my Mac OmniFocus would process them into its inbox.

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Posted on: 13th Mar, 2009 in Software,

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