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In this first post, I’m going to run through why colour theory is only a small part of choosing colours. Then you’ll begin to pick your palette. I’ll explain the things, that I consider when choosing a colour palette. This should help to inform your choices.

Feature detection is a core part of day to day life as someone who makes websites. It’s one of those features I usually hand off to Modernizr. I recently saw a tweet, which spurred the curiosity to see if we’re ready to use the @supports feature query. Now is definitely a good time to start.

As it’s the festive time of year, I thought I would add to the lists of gifts that people are writing. Christmas is one of my favourite times of year, not just for the gift giving, but it’s a time to relax and enjoy what surrounds Christmas. Usually there’s a bit of a designer spin on it, which is my aim, but I think they’re suitable for everyone. I own some of these things already, so for what I can I have provided a brief review. There’s a mix of things from notebooks to shoes, with varying price points.

The idea of this post comes from a previous one, ‘accuracy in wireframes’. I thought more about the topic, which was around trying to decide layout and adding visual style. Focusing on two very important aspects of making websites leads to difficulties. It was part of a larger problem in my process.In this post I want to cover ways, where split focus can creep in, and the purpose of each step, so you can gain understanding for avoiding split focus. This is based on my process, so yours may differ, but the premise is the same.

There are many opinions against rolling your own CSS framework. To the extent, it can make you think, let’s get bootstrap (or another) and see what happens.I genuinely believe there is no harm in making your own. I started one a couple of years ago and have just got back to it recently (as I have been focused more on designing lately). It isn’t in too bad shape, but it’s made me evaluate it and begin refining it again. There’s value in creating your own if you use it regularly and keep it up to date.

I’ve seen tweets, and hear people say “I’m no good at sketching/drawing.” So they don’t bother with doing it. For me not sketching your website before going into a wireframe or design, means you’re missing out!Just because you feel like you can’t sketch, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. After all, you’re capable of building a website, and at some point in the past you weren’t. In this post, I’ll show you my process and how to sketch websites.

This is one of the first things; I’ve worked on aside from what’s posts, to give away. It’s quite difficult to figure out what to design to give away, without just adding to the masses of things out there already. I’ve decided to code up some form styles. So you should be able to grab their styles and apply them right away to your forms. There are three variations.

Grunticon updated to V2 a while ago now and what came with it was the ability to insert inline SVG. This is great because it can generate the necessary fallbacks and not ruin layout in old browsers with the presence of an

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a little while over the course of posting regularly. I feel it a duty to go back and refine some posts or make additions to them to improve them.So there is no post as such this week. I’ve decided to go back and update some. I’ve listed each of the posts and changes I’ve made for you.

One of the trickiest things to deal with cross browser is the styling of form elements. All browsers influence these strictly, but over the years the ‘appearance’ property has been present in WebKit and Blink browsers, and Firefox to help gain some control. More recently it’s been added to Edge. It is a little more to it than just using this property. I’ll explain the advantages and drawbacks to this and how I handle it. The goal of this post is to give you the base for you to apply your visual style on top of. I will be covering text, button and select elements.

I have updated my logomark. It’s been around 5 years, since I last made a change relating to my logo. I’m going to cover the steps leading up to this.

Following on nicely from the previous post. One of the things with critical path CSS, is you can’t use wp_enqueue_style. It’s not a huge deal, as the easiest way to get around it is by putting it in your the regular way. Though when you combine that with cookies and