As a front end developer, I usually spend some time at the start of a new project slicing up the design to save out all the elements I’m going to need to use in my HTML templates. In addition to this I will also try and combine similar elements such as hover/focus/active states for multiple elements into single images known as ‘sprites’. (more…)
Web Development Blog Posts
Sprite Cow: An Online Tool to Save Time Calculating CSS Background-Position
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Coding on the South Coast – Full Frontal Conference 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
On the 11 November, I attended the Full Frontal Conference in Brighton. If you’ve followed the Epiphany blog for a while and have a spectacular memory, you’ll remember I attended last year and brought back a wealth of tips and tricks for our web development team. (more…)
What is the Role of the Designer?
Friday, November 25th, 2011Design, Engagement, Web Development
I had the privilege of speaking on the panel at one of the lunch time events for Leeds Digital Festival at the end of October.
‘Designing for Digital’ saw a number of leading designers and Creative Directors (I don’t include myself in this list) from some of the top Leeds agencies (but I do include Epiphany in this list) , web teams and freelancers. The panel participated in an open discussion on various points about designing for all type of digital environments with encouraged engagement from the audience. (more…)
Schema.org – Recent Updates Encouraging?
Monday, October 17th, 2011
In September’s post, I wrote an introduction to Microformats and how you can make use of them.
At the end of the post I mentioned Schema.org – a standardised set of a Microformats being developed for widespread use across the net, including universal support amongst search engines. (more…)
What are Microformats and How Can They Benefit You?
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Microformats are the current step on the road towards the ‘Semantic Web’ or ‘Web 3.0’. They are a set of conventions that can be used within a web page to provide more information regarding its contents.
With the use of Microformats, a page can evolve from simply being ‘machine readable’, to being ‘machine understandable’. (more…)
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