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Article — 7 March 2016 — 1,467 words

Web developers need to shape up and declare war on webpage obesity

Digital — Web

Loading a webpage on the Verge

As an industry, web professionals have failed their users. It’s time to stop building bloated and inaccessible pages.

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Article — 4 March 2016 — 1,013 words

Implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress

Digital — Web

I was bracing myself for a difficult experience. Instead, I found myself amazed at how easy it is to make your WordPress site compatible with AMP.

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Article — 3 March 2016 — 1,051 words

What the Accelerated Mobile Pages project tells us about the sorry state of web publishing

Digital — Web

Accelerated Mobile Pages logo

The web is in a bad state of health right now. Web publishers and developers can blame themselves.

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Article — 27 February 2016 — 1,217 words

6 lessons I learned while moving to WordPress multisite

Web

WordPress multisite

I didn’t think moving to WordPress multisite was going to be easy, and sure enough I hit some bumps along the way. Here are six big lessons I learned.

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Article — 20 January 2016 — 1,074 words

Why hamburger menus can be good for you as part of a healthy balanced diet

Design — Digital — User experience — Web

'Hamburger menu' in a building in Edinburgh

There is an interesting debate in the design community right now about the hamburger menu. Given two extremes of opinion, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

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Article — 24 September 2015 — 910 words

Web design should be boring

Design — Digital — User experience — Web

Bootstrap screenshot

The web is a less creative place than it was 20 years ago. Good.

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Article — 1 June 2015 — 561 words

Moving on

Web — Work

Arthur's Seat

Today I have started a new job. After over five years, I have left the University of St Andrews. I am now the web manager at SRUC in Edinburgh.

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Article — 14 March 2015 — 762 words

Improve the user experience of Formula 1 live timing with this one small tweak

Design — Digital — Formula 1 — User experience — Web

Formula1.com live timing custom stylesheet

The new Formula1.com has brought great new live timing functionality. But the user experience could be improved. Find out how you can improve it yourself in time for the Australian Grand Prix.

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Article — 25 February 2015 — 1,606 words

When the disrupters are disrupted: What is the future for digital professionals?

Design — Digital — Web — Work

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Digital transformation results in the eventual destruction of digital teams. So what will that mean for those of us who work in digital?

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Article — 19 February 2015 — 1,351 words

Is the Register right about Gov.uk and the Government Digital Service?

Digital — User experience — Web

Gov.uk: Digital by Default

Gov.uk is the darling of the digital profession. But now it has been described as the most hated website of all time. So what’s going on?

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Article — 10 December 2014 — 394 words

PNG versus SVG

Sport — Technology — Web

Flags of Papua New Guinea and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

For years the debate has raged on. Which image file format is better: PNG or SVG? The Commonwealth Games gave us the chance to find out.

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Article — 13 November 2014 — 780 words

Am I alone in thinking email doesn’t need to be fixed?

Design — Web

Inbox logo

Inbox is Google’s latest attempt to rethink email. But why make the world’s most popular communication platform more complicated?

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