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• Flog the alive horse instead

  We get told to "innovate" a lot in the web industry. New ideas, practices and technologies are thrown at us on a daily basis, each post in your feed reader as innovative as the next. In terms of design we're looking everywhere but at a screen for inspiration, using all sorts of CSS trickery to enhance our pages for a lucky half dozen, and using the latest trendy real-world texture to make our sites stand out. But if everyone's doing the next innovative thing, how original can we really be?

  Read the rest of this entry, Flog the alive horse instead // Posted on 12/06/08 // 1 comment

• Negative hovers piss me off

  You heard. Web links that behave negatively when you hover over them piss me off. I don't know why, and I know it's not a massively significant issue, but it seems like a lot of people (including myself in the past) regularly fail to grasp the point of a hover/focus state.

  Read the rest of this entry, Negative hovers piss me off // Posted on 05/06/08 // 6 comments

• Being overly anal with HTML enduces rage

  In the strange lands of HTML, semantics purism has been a fairly hot topic of late. With the help of some slightly more advanced CSS2 selectors, web developers have been able to start cutting out those unnecessary divisions and nasty classes, but are they just making more work for themselves?

  Read the rest of this entry, Being overly anal with HTML enduces rage // Posted on 02/04/08 // 4 comments

• Ben Saunders and his North Pole Speed Record

  

  Ben Saunders is a polar explorer, an athlete and a legend. At Erskine Design we got the pleasure of working with Ben on a website for his latest expedition; a solo speed record to the North Pole. Seeing as I had a significant role in the project, I thought I'd talk about some of the directions and decisions that were made during it's development.

  Read the rest of this entry, Ben Saunders and his North Pole Speed Record // Posted on 21/03/08 // 7 comments

• Sod It, It’s Live

  A brand new website, coming in your browsers! It's been 80% finished and I've been 80% happy with it for a few months, so today I just thought fuck it, I'll 'launch' it. So here it is, the new greg-wood.co.uk, a deliciously organized foray into the abnormalities and oddities of my grey matter. Or something.

  Read the rest of this entry, Sod It, It’s Live // Posted on 28/02/08 // 12 comments

• The Mobile Web - Does anyone really care?

  With the iPhone finally being released soon here in the UK, the mobile web is "about to explode", according to various sources. Explode in a good way, I presume. The question is, with the arrival of this landmark in the evolution of the mobile web, will us web-people have to reconsider the way we deal with this technology.

  Read the rest of this entry, The Mobile Web - Does anyone really care? // Posted on 13/11/07 // 1 comment

• Spring Cleaning

  Seeing as I'm averaging one post a month, I thought I'd better apologize to you, the expectant reader, and explain why. The truth is, Colly's cracking the whip pretty hard, and Glen and I, as new recruits, are being forced to perform a number of hideous tasks as part of our 'initiation'.

  Read the rest of this entry, Spring Cleaning // Posted on 31/10/07 // 0 comments