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Iconara » Architectural Atrocities, part 9: Cairngorm’s Model Locator pattern
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Customers/iconara.net/iconara.net/httpd.www/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php. Architectural Atrocities, part 9: Cairngorm’s Model Locator pattern. From time to time I re-read the introductory articles on Cairngorm. Just to remind me of why I don’t use it and never will. This installment of the Architectural Atrocities series is a critique of the Cairngorm framework, and the Model Locator pattern in particular. The Cairngorm framework is hailed by many as. Pattern. If you scr...
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Accessibility — ldexterldesign ❤ Bristol-based freelance Designer & Developer
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Bristol-based freelance Designer and Developer. Tag Archive for 'Accessibility'. HTML5 Priority of Constituencies. January 26, 2011. Translated: “It’s. About the user baby! Reading and scanning on the web are not the same thing. November 21, 2010. Left-to-right. Users scan. Top-to-bottom. This is why it makes sense to left-justify menu labels (list items) and headings. Mozilla Drumbeat festival: ‘Learning is learning, and learning is good.’. November 3, 2010. Earlier this year. Mozilla. October 15, 2010.
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Usability — ldexterldesign ❤ Bristol-based freelance Designer & Developer
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Bristol-based freelance Designer and Developer. Tag Archive for 'Usability'. Head & Shoulders fly-out horizontal nav menu. February 2, 2012. One usability faux pas I often discover with websites (I’ll add the example website in question [here] when I remember the URL) is clickable areas moving when I try to target them. Here’s a good example of a fly-out menu that’s actually quite effective, unfortunately just not that well executed graphically:. Http:/ www.headandshoulders.co.uk/. January 13, 2012.
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Web Standards — ldexterldesign ❤ Bristol-based freelance Designer & Developer
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Bristol-based freelance Designer and Developer. Tag Archive for 'Web Standards'. Combining image zoom with effective use of screen real estate. December 28, 2011. URL valid 28/12/2011) are utilising a great product image zoom feature, making superb use of screen real estate. The logic is if you’re viewing a photo in detail you can’t read at the same time, so why show text? 8211; a progressive disclosure. Feature of interface design I’m a fan of since it compliments simplicity. January 26, 2011. Media tod...
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Umbrellas before clouds — ldexterldesign ❤ Bristol-based freelance Designer & Developer
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Bristol-based freelance Designer and Developer. Part 1: How to freelance (successfully)? Html5readiness.com ». July 11, 2010. Im Balloon Fighter logo by Polygraph Studios. So over the last few months I’ve been cautiously experimenting with putting in place processes to handle dealing with the routine tasks us. Have to handle on a regular basis. I’m not talking new tools, dope apps. Or revolutionary sleep techniques. But simple client correspondence. With new projects and work proposals (they’re very.
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Articles — ldexterldesign ❤ Bristol-based freelance Designer & Developer
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Bristol-based freelance Designer and Developer. Tag Archive for 'Articles'. Taming Adobe colour settings for your web browser. January 26, 2011. Some artwork Im working on*. If you – like me – are having problems reproducing identical colours between Photoshop and your web browser this post provides a solution. This post does not. Concern itself with best practices for printing techniques and managing. This is only a preview. Read the full post →. November 3, 2010. Earlier this year. Mozilla. 8211; aims ...
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davidSmalley » Shafted by FastHosts
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Litmus: Painless web site and email testing. So immediately on the phone to Fasthosts. First the issue of the virtual data pipes. Per month – maybe if you’re running a physical leased line to someone’s premises, but not for a cable in a data centre buddy. Tied into the insanity of these virtual data pipes. From each other. Read that line again. Yes there is zero access between servers in the same data centre, this is of course unless you pay their private lan. For the signup page during the time period t...
