Google Chart Tools
30th March 2012 | Development, Jquery, Skills
In brief, Google Chart Tools is a service which allows you to easily display charts on your web page using the Google Chart Tools API. To give you an example, I’m currently working on implementing the data used for a project with Google Chart Tools in order to achieve a variety in data visualisation. You…read more
Tutorial: Creating simple, flexible jQuery Tooltips
5th January 2012 | CSS, Development, HTML, Jquery, Tutorials
I don’t often post tutorials on my blog, as I usually focus on forums and Stackoverflow, but here’s a very simple, straight-forward tutorial that will be useful for anybody just getting to grips with jQuery. The Aim The idea here is to avoid any uneccessary steps and focus 100% on what we’re trying to achieve…read more
Mark Randall – brave soldier, great artist. Loving Grandad.
28th October 2011 | General
Mark Randall was born in Coventry. He studied for a short time at Coventry School of Art, before war time service with the Royal Navy (1941- 1946), interrupted his studies. After leaving the forces, he settled in London working as a commercial artist and graphic designer in advertising, whilst continuing with evening studies at Hornsey…read more
Web site launch – Enlightenment Business Solutions
18th October 2011 | Design, Development, HTML5
Founded by Shamim Sarif & Hanan Kattan, Enlightenment Business Solutions (EBS) provides a number of online marketing solutions in the UK and USA. EBS required a complete Web site re-design, implementing a user-friendly content management system. I decided that WordPress would be perfect for the project and this is the outcome… Visit the new EBS…read more
Engage, inspire, motivate
23rd September 2011 | Design, Work in Progress
A design concept I’m working on for a video production company based in Cambridge. Web site launch coming soon!
It got me thinking…
23rd August 2011 | Design, It got me thinking
A retrospective thought, looking back at my visit to my father’s home nation, Nigeria. First of all, what an experience! Although I’ve visited the country a number of times, I feel that this visit in particular allowed me to really take advantage of the experience and truly understand Nigerians and their way of life. Visiting…read more
My Design Process
14th July 2011 | Design, Development, Human Factors, User ExperienceTo be perfectly honest, I often find that my design process needs to be adjusted depending on the size of a project. I believe its extremely important that all of my projects have some sort of structure to them, otherwise both myself and the client could overlook serious issues that may affect the overall outcome of the project.
Invisible call-to-actions
7th July 2011 | Design, Email Marketing, Human Factors, User ExperienceOver the last few months I’ve noticed some interesting behaviors from the recipients of our email campaigns. Now, considering the majority of our email addresses belong to those aged 50+, I was quite surprised to see such a high number of users clicking on images, regardless of whether they looked like call-to-actions or not.
Disabilities and the Web
19th June 2011 | Accessibility, Design, Development, Human Factors, User ExperienceThe Web Accessibility Initiative (W3, 2005) defines Web Accessibility as the ability for disabled people to use the internet. In more detail, Web accessibility allows disabled users to understand, distinguish, interact and easily navigate when visiting a Web site.
Serif meets Slab-serif
21st May 2011 | Design, Typography
Serif meets slab-serif – you can have so much fun experimenting with this! Something I like to do when I have some free time.
Designing for the older audience
10th May 2011 | Design, Human Factors, User ExperienceHow does a someone approaching 21-years of age deal with designing for an average audience age of over-50? One thing is for sure, I need to be extremely careful during my design process, or even the initial planning for that matter. This is a challenge I have recently been faced with since working as an in-house Web Designer for a travel company in Cambridge, with the majority of their users aged 50+.