10 Places to get Design Inspiration..
To use an old adage… the Internet is huge. Millions of people use it as a place to get their thoughts out to the world, show off their ideas and generally try to help everyone else. However great this is when you have a few hours of down time to just browse around, It can be very easy when your looking for a bit of inspiration to get distracted by all of this white noise. So I’ve compiled a list of the sites that I go to first when I’m looking to read whats going on on the cutting edge of the industry and to get some design/devlopment inspiration. They’re also the place I go to first if I have a new project and want to see what’s interesting and get some ideas. These sites are useful to me for a whole range of reasons, more than I can go into here. Check each of them out and you should be able to see their benefits for projects both big and small. (more…)
Web Standards.. and badges.. Valid this and Valid that…
I recently came across a post by Jens Meiert in which he spoke out about web professionals and specifically about how “Valid CSS and Similar Claims Are Unprofessional“. I know its an oldie but that’s how the internet works, and in this case I really can’t agree with him.
I believe from reading his further comments throughout the page that [...]
The Great Irish Train Robbery
Contrary to popular belief, this is not something that happened in 1976. It is an ongoing phenomenon that Irish Rail users put up with every single day.
Commuters are a badly treated group of people, especially in the Dublin outer suburbs, because there is no alternative and they know it. Yes, you could drive into Dublin, [...]
5 best iPhone applications for Irish users…
Us Irish users are getting a bit of a raw deal when it comes to the iPhone AppStore (not to mention data charges and limits…). Not only did we not get a games section until very recently, but there are also a number of applications that are off limits to us. However some really good [...]
Slight redesign efforts…
As is I am the eternal tweaker, I’d like to apologise for the state of the site at the minute. I doing some work so show a number of categories on the front page but having a little trouble. I have it displaying my travel posts in a small area on the bottom left of [...]
