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• Bamboo Juice at the Eden Project

  27 April 2009 by Clive Walker

  Last week, I went to the Bamboo Juice web conference which was held at the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall. If you have not been there before, the Eden Project is definitely worth a visit and it provided a unique venue and backdrop to the conference itself. Luckily, I have some friends with a hotel in Bude, so it was a no-brainer for me to visit them at the same time. Excellent! Anyway, here’s my quick review of the conference….

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• Make your own podcasts with Huffduffer

  21 April 2009 by Clive Walker

  I often discover audio files on the web that I just don’t have time to listen to at the time. What I need is an easy mechanism of saving them so that I can listen later. I think I have found the website that does just that.

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• Table layouts compared with CSS layouts

  15 April 2009 by Clive Walker

  There's a good article over at Smashing Magazine called Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell? which discusses the pros and cons of different website layout methods.

• Thoughts on Twitter

  07 April 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have not really said much about Twitter since I joined a few months ago. Overall, I have found it to be useful, entertaining, addictive, and it has helped keep me ‘in the loop’ much more than I expected. Here are a few of my experiences and thoughts so far.

• Three Adobe Air applications for simple image editing

  30 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  These days, simple image editing does not need a copy of Photoshop on your PC/Mac because there are more and more free image editing applications that run on the Adobe Air cross-platform runtime. Of course, for heavy duty image work, you may still need Fireworks or Photoshop but for simple tasks a free image editing application may be just what you [or your clients] need. Here are three that I discovered recently.

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• Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks

  20 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  A new book from Sitepoint hit the shelves this week. Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks is “an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch.

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• Web standards anyone?

  19 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  A few years ago I attended and reported a Web Standards Group London meeting where Andy Budd gave an interesting presentation about web standards, including why he thought that the web standards ‘war’ [or promotion of web standards] had reached a ‘tipping point’ [the ‘war’ was won], and why modern web designers and developers should be focusing more on other areas like usability. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

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• Vertical centering with CSS

  08 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  Aligning an element so that is is vertically centered should be something that is quite easy but CSS makes it more difficult than it should be!

• Flexible Web Design by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

  04 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  I know that I usually create fixed width website layouts with CSS and it's relatively recently that I started experimenting a bit with liquid and elastic layouts.

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• Organising website content sensibly

  21 February 2009 by Clive Walker

  We were asked to design a new website for The Professional Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine for 2009. The new website launched last week.