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• Getting started with HTML5 and responsive design

  14 April 2011 by Clive Walker

  Over the next few weeks, I'm planning to learn about HTML5 by recoding CVW Web Design to the HTML5 specification. I want to start with a website that I know thoroughly before using HTML5 on client sites

• Social Hiking - a great web app!

  28 March 2011 by Clive Walker

  I use quite a few web applications and increasingly I am tying them into my non-web activities away from the office. In that vein, over the last year or so, I’ve been using Social Hiking which is a web application developed by Phil Sorrell (@daylightgambler). I’ve not blogged about this before (except indirectly in ViewRanger GPS for Cycling) but I think it’s a great app. Here’s my description and experiences with it so far.

• Finding time for 'fun' stuff?

  21 March 2011 by Clive Walker

  These days, I seem to be on a constant work cycle that doesn't seem to allow me much time to do the 'fun' web stuff or the personal projects that I used to do.

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• Ideas of March

  15 March 2011 by Clive Walker

  Today, I read a couple of tweets on Twitter which lead me to Chris Shiflett’s post, Ideas of March, where he encourages a blog revival by asking folks to write a similar post (saying why they like blogs) and to blog more for the rest of the month. So, here’s my post with that same theme

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• Review and Revise - How to review your website

  21 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  I’ve been reviewing CVW Web Design recently. It’s my main site, I want it to work as well as possible, and now seemed to be a good time to assess it (perhaps leading to a redesign). In this post, I’ll describe the process I am using. You may have alternative ways of doing this but here’s what I have done so far.

• New website for Chess Dynamics

  10 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  At the end of last year, we finished a redesign of the Chess Dynamics website. It was a project that I really enjoyed working on for a number of reasons.

• Website navigation menu examples

  05 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  Website navigation menus are a fundamental part of any website and it's easy to code these with CSS so that they look attractive and provide accessible links for your visitors and search engines.

• New Adventures in Nottingham

  23 January 2011 by Clive Walker

  I’ve just come back from the New Adventures in Web Design conference which was a one day conference in Nottingham. The event was created and organised by freelance web designer, author, and speaker Simon Collison and it was the first event (I assume) under the New Adventures name. Overall I really enjoyed it and here’s my review.

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• Textpattern mobile theme

  13 January 2011 by Clive Walker

  If you're a fan of Textpattern, you might be interested in Mobile Textpattern, which is a Textpattern theme that has been developed for mobile by Oliver Ker.

• CSS can do some great things these days

  06 January 2011 by Clive Walker

  Here's a short round-up of some CSS methods that I've been impressed with recently.