At the last London Sencha Touch user group I gave a talk on theming Sencha Touch (ST) with SASS. We’ve since had many requests for the slides and therefore thought I’d write the process up in a blog post. Continue reading
Patrick is UVd's self confessed 'most beautiful blonde' and like Kirsten, a snow lover. Yet another first class honours graduate within the UVd fold, gaining notoriety on one of the UK’s top digital media courses. He now uses his super-natural mastery of web standards, trends and compliance to amaze and bemuse the rest of the team.
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On styleguides
Patrick takes a look at how making use of front-end style guides can help to keep a consistent design layout and style across a website. Continue reading
Sublime Text 2 – user preferences
As with most professions, a craftsman should get to know, love and look after their tools. As web-developers – the majority of the time – our tools are the software and programming languages we work with every day. Patrick takes a look at some of the features of our text-editing IDE of choice – Sublime. Continue reading
Full Frontal 2011
Earlier this month I attended Fullfrontal Javascript 2011 conference hosted by Remy Sharp in lovely Brighton. I’ve wanted to attend since it started three years ago but have always had something in the way. So I jumped on a train at stupid o’clock on a very cold and misty morning and managed to finish off ‘Mobile First’ on the commute before grabbing a well deserved coffee with Tom Parker at Coffee@33. Continue reading
London Node.js User Group
Last night we attended the inaugural London Node User Group or to those in the know l-nug #lnug. We have been experimenting with node.js internally here all year and are extremely excited by the prospects it may hold for our clients and us in the future, aside from the fact we love all things javascript and who wouldn’t want to write asynchronous code…. Continue reading
Responsive web design and small screen optimisation
Patrick has written a white paper to outline a process called ‘responsive design and enhancement’ that can be used to optimise your website’s content and adapt to different screen sizes and devices. Continue reading
Accessible breadcrumbs using ARIA
We take a look at using ARIA to provide us with a solution for building accessible breadcrumbs within a common hierarchical structure (or taxonomy) of the web: categorised sections which contain articles of content that are all related to that category. Continue reading
Going mobile with CSS3 media queries
We thought we’d give you a little insight into one of our favourite CSS3 modules ‘Media queries’ and how we are using it to make websites more mobile friendly. Continue reading
More accessible user interfaces with ARIA
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending Todd Kloots Yahoo! Dev talk on “More Accessible User Interfaces with ARIA”, apart from the added bonus of being located in the new Skills Matter conference and events centre. Todd made a … Continue reading
FOWD Tour – Bristol
Whilst Gareth was attending the1st linked data meetup I was on the other side of the country in lovely Bristol attending the FOWD Bristol Tour. The day long conference was designed to let people get a chance to experience what … Continue reading