Web – Page 12 – Duncan Stephen

Article — 2 May 2013 — 421 words

Mobile first

I have made some tweaks to the design of this website. I decided to take the opportunity to make the CSS file mobile first.

Article — 2 February 2013 — 994 words

On the web, big is beautiful — but not in extremes

User experience — Web

No matter how great a design trend feels at the time, we always look back and cringe. What is today’s clanger? I am worried that everything on the web is getting too big.

Article — 28 January 2013 — 990 words

Subscription options and the failed promise of RSS

User experience — Web

RSS feeds were once a promising feature of the web, but are usually only used by geeks. So is it still a good idea to publicise RSS feeds on your website?

Article — 24 December 2012 — 593 words

Colour

Accessibility — Web

Concluding my look at the decisions I made while designing this website, this article looks at the issues surrounding colour.

Article — 23 December 2012 — 601 words

Layout and responsive design

User experience — Web

Continuing my series explaining the decisions I made while designing this website, this article looks at the process of creating the layout and working on a responsive design.

Article — 22 December 2012 — 558 words

HTML5 and web fonts

Accessibility — Web

This series of posts will cover some of the decisions I have made while designing this website. This first article looks at the issues surrounding HTML5 and web fonts.

Article — 20 December 2012 — 497 words

Some notes on my new website

Personal — Web

I have decided to start blogging again — sort of. I explain why I had to stop in the past, and how I plan to carry on in the future.

Article — 8 November 2011 — 145 words

Today I received an HTML email that is amazingly user-unfriendly. We have all become accustomed to image-laden emails and dodgy table-based layouts in HTML emails (it is, after all, more-or-less the only way to do it). But this takes it to a whole new level. Horizontal scrolling is enough of a no-no as it is. […]

Article — 19 July 2011 — 17 words

WordPress Twitter Facebook?!

Technology — Web

When adding social media icons to a website, take care over the order in which they appear.

Article — 30 July 2010 — 116 words

Blogging for the University of St Andrews web team

Technology — Web

Work: University of St Andrews

I have now begun writing for yet another blog. The University of St Andrews web team blog is being relaunched after an almost two year long hiatus. So if you’ve ever wanted to learn about what I do at work (!) then you are in luck! My first post is about the Institutional Web Management […]

Article — 19 July 2010 — 636 words

Why are web browser logos all circular?

Web

Work: University of St Andrews

A thought suddenly occurred to me last week when I was attending a presentation at IWMW about HTML5 and friends. One of the slides contained the logos of the five major browsers. It suddenly occurred to me that they are all round! It is almost as if the circle or sphere has, by stealth, become […]

Article — 6 December 2009 — 456 words

There is a good reason for the lack of updates

Personal — Web

I don’t often write about myself here these days. Despite the fact that I went to all the effort to set up a personal website, I do think it is a tad self-indulgent to bang on about myself. However, some readers may be interested in recent developments in my life. Regular readers will know that […]

Category: Web

Mobile first

On the web, big is beautiful — but not in extremes

Subscription options and the failed promise of RSS

Colour

Layout and responsive design

HTML5 and web fonts

Some notes on my new website

An incredibly unusable email

Blogging for the University of St Andrews web team

Why are web browser logos all circular?

There is a good reason for the lack of updates